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DURHAM UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIESLECTURE MODULESREADING LISTBOOKLET2012/2013CONTENTSReading Lists and Lecture ProgrammesTheory and Practice of Literary CriticismPage 2Old EnglishPage 6Restoration and Eighteenth-Century LiteraturePage 9ShakespearePage 14American FictionPage 20Post-War Fiction and PoetryPage 46Literature of the Romantic PeriodPage 54ChaucerPage 61THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LITERARY CRITICSMModule convenors: Dr Mark Sandy and Dr Sam ThomasThis introductory list covers texts you should consider looking at over the long vacation.Essential course material and recommended background readingThe set anthologies for the module are:David Lodge (ed.), Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader, (Longman, 1972).Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh (eds.), Modern Literary Theory, 4th ed. (Edward Arnold, 2001).These two books contain excerpts from some of the most important works in literary theory over the past 100 years or so. Between them, the two course anthologies cover almost all topics on the module and provide key essays by major critics and theorists and brief but helpful introductions to critics and/or movements. The essays in these books will provide the primary material for your tutorial discussions and will be referred to in lectures. For this module, it is important to try to read relevant essays before each lecture: you will get much more out of the course if you do some preparatory reading. There are also several other anthologies covering similar topics but with different essays: you may find a particular essay you are looking for in one of them. These are also a good way to read the primary sources of a topic in more depth. Particularly wide-ranging ones are the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. V Leitch (Norton, 2001) and Literary Theory: an Anthology, eds. M Ryan and J Rivkin (Blackwell, 2004, 2nd ed.). Of course, many essays in anthologies are often taken from longer books by the author and very often the book in question is in the library.Introductory surveysAll students are recommended to read one or more introductory guides to theory. The most comprehensive is Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide, ed. Patricia Waugh (OUP, 2006). This is an invaluable collection of some 40 essays with a long introduction covering the history of, and most movements in, modern theory and criticism. It provides useful background material and suggestions for further reading. There are several very accessible introductory guides, among which are:Peter Barry, Beginning Theory, 3rd ed. (Manchester, 2009) Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, 4th ed. (Pearson, 2005).Jonathan Culler, A Very Short Introduction to Literary Theory (OUP, 1997)Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction, (Blackwell, 1983; 2nd ed. 2003)Jeffrey Hawthorn, Unlocking the Text, (Edward Arnold, 1987).Ann Jefferson and David Robey, eds., Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction (Batsford, 1982). [Out of Print]. Raman Selden, Practising Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989).Please also consult online resources, which you can access via duo – there are some very valuable resources available including links to relevant websites. Useful anthologies that apply theory to literature: Donald Keesey, Contexts for Criticism (Mayfield, 1994)Michael Ryan, Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction (Blackwell, 1999) Douglas Tallack, Literary Theory at Work: 3 Texts (Batsford, 1987)Students may also gather some initial information from:David Macey, The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory (Penguin, 2000) Gregory Castle, The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory (Blackwell, 2007) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LITERARY CRITICISMLECTURE LIST 2012/13Lectures will be held every Tuesday at 1 pm. Venue will be notified in September 2012. Michaelmas Term 2012OctoberIntroduction: What is theory?Dr NashOctober Culture and Tradition (i) Arnold to LeavisDr NashOctoberCulture and Tradition (ii) EliotDr HardingOctoberThe Canon and Literary ValueDr Harding November Formalism (i) Russian FormalismDr Nash NovemberFormalism (ii) New Criticism Professor HartNovemberNew Historicism Professor HartDecemberHermeneutics, Reception Theory and Reader ResponseProfessor ClarkDecemberMarxism (i) Literature and IdeologyDr ThomasDecember Marxism (ii) Adorno and the Frankfurt SchoolDr Thomas Epiphany Term 2013January Psychoanalysis (i) FreudDr JamesJanuary Psychoanalysis (ii) LacanDr ThomasFebruary FeminismsDr WoottonFebruary Gender and the BodyProfessor Waugh FebruaryREADING WEEKFebruary DeconstructionProfessor ClarkMarch EcocriticismProfessor ClarkMarch Postcolonialism (i)Professor ReganMarch Postcolonialism (ii)Dr TerryEaster Term 2013April. PostmodernismDr GrausamApril Theory, Value, Aesthetics: TheProfessor Waugh ‘Two Cultures Debate’MayNew Directions in Criticism andProfessor WaughTheoryOLD ENGLISH – Levels 2 and 3Module Convenor: Dr Ashurst (Dr Cartlidge in Easter term)To prepare for this module you should read as widely as possible in Old English literature in translation. For the poetry use Bradley or Hamer, and for the prose use Swanton if you can get hold of it (see below for details). You would also do well to read a study such as that by North and Allard or the one by Fulk and Cain. The only book you must have your own copy of is Marsden, which is the set text for the module and will be used in all the translation classes. You will be taught Old English grammar from scratch – no prior knowledge is required. Before Easter you sit a two-hour examination in which you are asked to translate a short passage that you have not previously seen, as well as several you have studied in class, and to write a short literary-critical essay; the exam counts for fifty percent of the assessment. After sitting the exam you produce a summative essay of 3,000 words, which counts for the other fifty percent of the overall mark. Introductory BibliographyExtensive bibliographies for specific topics, including standard editions of the Old English texts, will be available on Duo. For the purposes of this introductory bibliography, Old English texts without translations have been excluded; the point is that you should be able to read any of this material during the summer if you wish. Asterisked items are recommended for possible purchase.1. Grammars* Marsden, Richard, The Cambridge Old English Reader, Cambridge: CUP, 2004. (Essential. You do not need any other grammar book, although an alternative could be useful.)Mitchell, Bruce, and Fred. C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, 7th edn, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.Sweet, Henry, Old English Primer, 9th edn, rev. Norman Davis, Oxford: OUP, 1965.Quirk, Randolph, and C.L. Wrenn, Old English Grammar, 2nd edn, London: Methuen, 1957.2. Texts and Translations*Anglo-Saxon Poetry, ed. and trans. S.A.J. Bradley, London: Dent Everyman, 1982.*A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, ed. and trans. Richard Hamer, London: Faber, 1970.Anglo-Saxon Prose, ed. and trans. Michael Swanton, rev. edn, London: Dent Everyman, 1993.Old and Middle English: An Anthology, ed. Elaine Treharne, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. and trans. Michael Swanton, rev. edn, London: Dent Everyman, 2000.Beowulf, ed. and trans. Michael Swanton, Manchester: Manchester UP, 1978 (Old English text with facing page translation).Beowulf and its Analogues, trans. G.N. Garmonsway and Jacqueline Simpson, London: Dent, 1980 (includes a translation of Beowulf and much other legendary material).Shippey, T.A., ed. and trans., Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1976 (texts and facing page translations).Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, trans. Leo Sherley-Price, rev. edn, London: Penguin, 1990.3. Introductory Studies*North, Richard, and Joe Allard, eds, Beowulf and Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures, Harlow: Pearson, 2007.*Fulk, R.D. and Christopher M. Cain, A History of Old English Literature, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.*Companion to Medieval Poetry, ed. Corinne Saunders, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. This volume contains many useful essays on Old English poetry.Greenfield, Stanley B. and Daniel G. Calder (with Michael Lapidge), A New Critical History of Old English Literature, New York and London: New York UP, 1986.Godden, Malcolm, and Michael Lapidge, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, Cambridge: CUP, 1991.Pulsiano, Philip, and Elaine Treharne, A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.4. Reference and History*The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Michael Lapidge and others, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.Fisher, P.J.V., The Anglo-Saxon Age, c. 400-1042, London: Longman, 1973.Hunter Blair, Peter, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, 2nd edn, Cambridge: CUP, 1977.Stenton, F.M., Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edn, Oxford: OUP, 1971.OLD ENGLISHLECTURE LIST 2012-2013All lectures take place in Michaelmas Term at 9 am on Mondays. Venue will be notified in September 2012. Michaelmas Term 20121Introduction: Alfredian Prose Dr Ashurst2Old English Riddles Dr Cartlidge3Old Testament Heroic Poetry: Exodus and Genesis BProfessor McKinnell 4Saints in the Exeter Book: Juliana and GuthlacProfessor Saunders5ApolloniusProfessor Archibald6BeowulfDr Cartlidge7Women’s Voices in Old EnglishProfessor Saunders 8Wisdom PoetryDr Ashurst 9Body and SoulDr Cartlidge10WulfstanDr Ashurst The seminars that happen weekly throughout Michaelmas and Epiphany terms are devoted to grammar, translation and practical criticism. The texts to be studied will probably include selections from the following: Apollonius, Riddles, Deor, The Dream of the Rood, Wulfstan’s De falsis deis,The Seafarer, Judith, Exodus, Genesis B, Beowulf.RESTORATION ANDEIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE:PRELIMINARY READING, LEVELS 2 AND 3MODULE CONVENOR: DR GILLIAN SKINNERThis module includes a good deal of fiction, some of which is quite lengthy. If you think you may be interested in pursuing work on (for example) Richardson, Fielding, Sterne or Burney, it’s a very sensible idea to use the summer vacation to get ahead with some of the reading (which is not to say, of course, that you shouldn’t also read some poetry and/or drama as well if you wish!). The lecture series follows a broadly chronological order, so writers from earlier in the period (Dryden, Vanbrugh, Otway, Buckingham, Behn, Gay, Defoe, Swift, Pope and Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea) will be covered in Michaelmas, later writers (Thomson, Richardson, Fielding, Johnson, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Sterne, Leapor, Yearsley, Cowper, Smart and Burney) in Epiphany and Easter. These are the recommended editions of works to be focused on in lectures. Aphra Behn: Janet Todd (ed.), ‘Oroonoko’, ‘The Rover’ and Other Works (Penguin).Frances Burney: Vivien Jones (ed.), Evelina (Oxford). William Cowper: Nick Rhodes (ed.), Selected Poems (Carcanet: Fyfield Books).Daniel Defoe: Paula R. Backscheider (ed.), A Journal of the Plague Year (Norton); Roxana, ed. David Blewett (Penguin).John Dryden: Paul Hammond & David Hopkins (eds), Selected Poems (Longman). We shall definitely be looking at ‘Mac Flecknoe’, Absalom and Achitophel, and ‘The Medal’. We shall also cover his comedy Marriage A-la-Mode, available in paperback, edited by David Crane (New Mermaids).Henry Fielding: Thomas Keymer (ed), Joseph Andrews (Oxford) and John Bender & Simon Stern (eds), Tom Jones (Oxford); Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea: Denys Thompson (ed.), Selected Poems (Fyfield Books).John Gay: Bryan Loughrey (ed.), The Beggar’s Opera (Penguin). Oliver Goldsmith: Nigel Wood (ed.), She Stoops to Conquer and Other Plays (Oxford). Also contains a selection of other contemporary comedies. Samuel Johnson: Donald Greene (ed.), Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford). Contains Rasselas, the ‘Life of Savage’, excerpts from The Rambler and both his major poems, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, all of which will be covered in lectures.Alexander Pope: Pat Rogers (ed.), Selected Poetry (Oxford). We shall definitely be looking at The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad.Samuel Richardson: Peter Sabor & Thomas Keymer (eds), Pamela (Penguin) and Angus Ross (ed.), Clarissa (Penguin).Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Michael Cordner (ed.), The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Oxford). Christopher Smart: Marcus Walsh (ed.), Religious Poetry (Carcanet: Fyfield Books).Jonathan Swift: Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins (eds) The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift (Norton Critical Editions). We shall definitely be looking at A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels. Alternatively you could buy Gulliver’s Travels (Oxford) and/or Modest Proposal (Penguin) separately. The Rawson and Higgins may be cheaper than buying both in separate editions.Laurence Sterne: Howard Anderson (ed.), Tristram Shandy (Norton). John Vanbrugh: James L. Smith (ed.), The Provoked Wife (New Mermaids).Ann Yearsley: Tim Burke (ed.), Selected Poems (University of Gloucestershire Press). Some authors/texts to be lectured on in the course are not available in cheap paperback editions, but can be found in the library and/or accessed via the internet, as follows:George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: David Crane (ed.), The Rehearsal (Durham University Press).Mary Leapor: Richard Greene & Ann Messenger (eds), Works (Oxford). See also anthologies of poetry below.Thomas Otway: Aline Mackenzie Taylor (ed.), The Orphan (University of Nebraska Press) and Malcolm Kelsall (ed.), Venice Preserved (Edward Arnold).Thomson: The Seasons, ed. James Sambrook (Oxford). ‘Spring’ is reproduced in its entirety in Fairer and Gerrard (see below).J. Douglas Canfield & Maja-Lisa von Sneidern (eds), The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama (Broadview) includes many of the plays to be focused on in lectures and has useful introductions, annotations and glossary.The database Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) is accessible via the library and offers access to a huge range of eighteenth-century publications (and eighteenth-century editions of earlier works).Anthologies for possible purchase: David Fairer and Christine Gerrard (eds), Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell), offers a useful and well-annotated selection of verse from a good range of poets, including all the poets covered in lectures apart from Dryden and Behn. David Womersley’s Restoration Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell) is a comprehensive selection, of which the following texts will definitely be covered on the course: Behn, The Rover; Otway, Venice Preserved; Buckingham, The Rehearsal. There are copies of these anthologies in the library.Several texts on the course are also available in the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Preliminary secondary reading:For a broad examination of the context, Roy Porter’s Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (Penguin, 2000) offers a wide-ranging and eminently readable portrait of the period, in which literature figures as just one of the many cultural forms in which he is interested. For a beautiful as well as fascinating book about culture and the arts, go to John Brewer’s The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London: Harper Collins, 1997). For a more specifically literary approach (and one more narrowly focused historically), Moyra Haslett’s Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) provides a lively discussion of the literary culture of the eighteenth century (and finishes with brief chapters discussing three major texts, The Dunciad, Gulliver’s Travels, and Pamela). Brean Hammond and Shaun Regan’s Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) is a helpful starting-point for thinking about the emergence of the novel form in the period. You could also look at some of the following:David Fairer, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century (Harlow: Longman, 2003).Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature from 1740 to 1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004).Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989) and The Eighteenth Century: 1688-1815 (Short Oxford History of the British Isles; Oxford: OUP, 2002).Susan J. Owen, Perspectives on Restoration Drama (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002).Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century (London: Penguin, 1982). James Sambrook, The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700-1789, Longman Literature in English (2nd ed. Longman, 1993).David Womersley, A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).Stephen Zwicker, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998).RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURELECTURE LIST 2012-2013Lectures will be held every Wednesday at 11 am. Venue will be notified in September 2012. Michaelmas Term 20121. Introduction: the Restoration and early eighteenth century Dr Skinner2.Restoration comedy (Dryden, Marriage A-la-Mode; Vanbrugh, The Provoked Wife)Dr Ravelhofer3.Restoration tragedy (Otway, The Orphan, Venice Preserved)Dr Ravelhofer4.Self-conscious theatre (Buckingham, The Rehearsal; Gay, The Beggar’s Opera)Dr Ravelhofer5.Behn (The Rover, The Fair Jilt, Oroonoko)Dr Green6. Defoe (Journal of the Plague Year, Roxana)Dr Crane7.Swift (Gulliver, Modest Proposal)Dr O’Connell8.Classicism and the satiric mode (Dryden, ‘Mac Flecknoe’; Pope, Dunciad)Dr Green9.Political poetics (Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, ‘The Medal’)Dr Green10.‘A woman that attempts the pen’: the poetry of Anne Finch, Countess of WinchelseaDr SkinnerEpiphany Term 201311.Introduction: the mid- and later eighteenth centuryDr Skinner12.Eighteenth-century comedy (Sheridan, The School for Scandal, The Rivals; Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer)Dr James13.Richardson (Pamela/Clarissa)Dr Skinner14.Fielding (Joseph Andrews/Tom Jones)Dr Skinner15.Sterne (Tristram Shandy)Dr Nash16.Ideas of Nature (Thomson, Seasons)Professor O’Neill17.Poetry and the labouring classes(Gray,‘Elegy’; Leapor, Yearsley)Dr Skinner18.Johnson and Juvenal (London, The Vanity of Human Wishes)Dr CarverEaster Term 201319.Poetry, enthusiasm and madness (Smart, Cowper)Dr Crane20.Journalism and the public sphere (Johnson, Rambler, Rasselas, Life of Savage)Dr Crane21.Politeness, consumerism and luxury (Pope, Rape of the Lock & Burney, Evelina)Dr SkinnerShakespeareModule convenor: Dr Barbara RavelhoferMichaelmas Term lectures will be on tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear), and historical drama (Richard II, Henry IV/1,2). You should read all of these works during the summer vacation. Epiphany and Easter Term lectures will be on the Sonnets and narrative poems (Venus and Adonis), forms of comedy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well, The Merchant of Venice), Roman plays (Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra), as well as several later plays (including Cymbeline and The Tempest). You need to engage with the full range of Shakespeare’s works, so it is important that you read as widely and as deeply as possible, rather than trying to rely on your A-Level knowledge.EditionsCollected Works: A good collected edition, with an aggressively modern editing policy, is The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: OUP, 1988, 2nd edn, 2005). This text is also available in annotated form (including an essay on the Shakespearean stage by Andrew Gurr), The Norton Shakespeare, ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. (New York: Norton, 1997). William Shakespeare: Complete Works, ed. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (New York: Random House, 2007; pbk Basingstoke: Macmillan / The Royal Shakespeare Company, 2008) represents a modernized version of Shakespeare’s First Folio edn (1623). Also of interest are The Riverside Shakespeare, gen. ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2nd edn, 1997), the original-spelling Complete Works, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: OUP, 1986), the Shakespeare Association Facsimiles, ed. W. W. Greg and Charlton Hinman, 1939–, and The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio, ed. Charlton Hinman, 1968 (2nd ed., intro. P. W. M. Blayney, 1996). Editions of individual works: the Arden Shakespeare, launched in 1899 and now in its Third Series, provides copious introductions, annotation, and textual apparatus of the highest scholarly standard. Other editions include Signet Classic, New Penguin, New Cambridge, and Oxford series (now available as World’s Classics). The recommended edition for non-dramatic verse is Complete Sonnets and Poems, ed. Colin Burrow (OUP, 2002).Editions suitable for the Shakespeare examination:The Shakespeare examination is an ‘open book’ paper: candidates must take a copy of the collected works into the examination. No loose papers or photocopies of the works must be brought to the exam. The editon must be an unannotated text. It must not contain any commentary or glosses of difficult words in the margins. Introductions to individual plays should not exceed one page. Texts should include a line count.Standard edn for the examination: Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, ed. Wells and Taylor, 1988/2005. Unsuitable for the examination: The Norton Shakespeare (Greenblatt); The RSC/ Macmillan Shakespeare (Bate and Rasmussen); The Riverside Shakespeare.Reference works and introductionsArmstrong, Katherine, and Graham Atkin. Studying Shakespeare: A Practical Introduction. London: Prentice Hall, 1998.Bate, Jonathan, and Russell Jackson, Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. 8 vols. London: Routledge, 1957-75.Dobson, Michael, and Stanley Wells, eds. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.Findlay, Alison. Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary. London: Continuum, 2010. An A-Z of over 350 entries on how women were represented on the stage.Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642. CUP, 4th edn 2009.Kastan, David Scott, ed. A Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.Muir, Kenneth, and Samuel Schoenbaum, eds. A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1971.Schoenbaum, Samuel. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life. Oxford: Clarendon, 1975.Smith, Emma, ed. Shakespeare’s Histories. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.Smith, Emma, ed. Shakespeare’s Tragedies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.Smith, Emma, ed. Shakespeare’s Comedies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.Wells, Stanley, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.Wells, Stanley, and Gary Taylor. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.Wells, Stanley, ed. Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.CriticismThe following is a select list of the vast Shakespeare literature. Individual lecturers may recommend further specific works in tutorials and lectures.Pre-Twentieth CenturyJohnson, Samuel. Johnson on Shakespeare. Ed. A. Sherbo. New Haven: Yale UP, 1968 (The Works of Samuel Johnson, vols 7 and 8, 1958-85).Foakes, R. A., ed. Coleridge’s Criticism of Shakespeare: A Selection. London: Athlone, 1989.Bate, Jonathan, ed. The Romantics on Shakespeare. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992.1900-1960Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Macmillan, 1904. New ed. Ed. John Russell Brown. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.Granville-Barker, Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare. 5 vols. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1927-47.Knight, G. Wilson. The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1930. 4th ed., 1960. Wilson, John Dover. What Happens in “Hamlet.” Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1935 (3rd ed., 1956).Traversi, Derek. An Approach to Shakespeare. London: Hollis & Carter, 1938. 3rd ed. London, 1968-9.Tillyard, E. M. W. Shakespeare’s History Plays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1944.Barber, C. L. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1959.Knights, L. C. Some Shakespearean Themes (1959) and An Approach to “Hamlet” (1960). Stanford: Stanford UP, 1966.1960-2011Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary. London: Methuen, 1964.Frye, Northrop. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance. New York: Columbia UP, 1965.Jones, Emrys. Scenic Form in Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.Lenz, Carolyn, Gayle Greene, and Carol Neely, eds. The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1980.Bayley, John. Shakespeare and Tragedy. London: Routledge, 1981.French, Marilyn. Shakespeare’s Division of Experience. London: Cape, 1982.Thomson, Peter. Shakespeare’s Theatre. London: Routledge, 1983; 2nd ed., London: Routledge, 1992.Empson, William. Essays on Shakespeare. Ed. David B. Pirie. Cambridge: CUP, 1985.Dollimore, Jonathan, and Alan Sinfield, eds. Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1985; 2nd ed., 1993.Barton, Anne. Essays, Mainly Shakespearean. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.Drakakis, John, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. Vol. 1. London: Methuen, 1985.Hawkes, Terence, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. Vol. 2. London: Routledge, 1996.Barber, C. L., and Richard Wheeler. The Whole Journey: Shakespeare’s Power of Development. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986.Greenblatt, Stephen. Shakespearean Negotiations. Berkeley: U of California P, 1988.Cavell, Stanley. Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.Bradshaw, Graham. Shakespeare’s Scepticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.Hughes, Ted. Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. London: Faber, 1992.Olson, Paul A., Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy (U of Nebraska P, 2009).Traub, Valerie. Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama. London: Routledge, 1992.Vickers, Brian. Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels. New Haven: Yale UP, 1994.Jones, John. Shakespeare at Work. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. London: Picador, 1997.Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare’s Language. London: Allen Lane, 2000.Loomba, Ania. Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism. Oxford UP, 2002.Vickers, Brian. Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays. Oxford UP, 2002.Erne, Lukas. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.Lopez, Jeremy. Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.Edmondson, Paul, and Stanley Wells. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Oxford UP, 2004. Essential reading for candidates preparing the Sonnets for the exam.)Rackin, Phyllis, Shakespeare and Women. Oxford UP, 2005.Nelsen, Paul, and June Schlueter, eds, Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson P, 2006. Nuttall, AD, Shakespeare the Thinker. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.Jowett, John. Shakespeare and Text. OUP, 2007. Stewart, Alan. Shakespeare’s Letters. OUP, 2008. Shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. Hammond, Paul. The Strangeness of Tragedy. OUP, 2009. Covering classical to neo-classical literature, including Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare and Racine.Findlay, Alison. Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama. Manchester UP, 2009.Meek, Richard, Jane Rickard and Richard Wilson, eds. Shakespeare’s Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception. Manchester UP, 2009.Gurr, Andrew. Shakespeare’s Opposites: The Admiral’s Company, 1594-1625. CUP, 2009.Marshall, Gail. Shakespeare and Victorian Women. CUP, 2009.McKeown, Adam N. English Mercuries: Soldier Poets in the Age of Shakespeare. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2010. Author is in the US Marine Corps Reserve.Lerner, Ralph. Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times. U of Chicago P, 2010. Shapiro, James. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? London: Faber, 2010.Rowe, Nicholas. Life of Shakespeare, intr. Charles Nicholl. London: Pallas Athene, 2010.Burt, Stephen, and David Mikics. The Art of the Sonnet. Harvard: Belknap, 2010.Jackson, Ken, and Arthur F. Marotti, eds. Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2011.Craig, Hugh, and Arthur Kinney, eds. Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship. CUP, 2011.Academic Journals:A host of excellent journals is warmly recommended for exam purposes. You will find browsing the following very rewarding, as they offer a perfect alternative to oversubscribed books recommended in lectures:Shakespeare Quarterly (New York, 1950–present)Shakespeare Studies (Cincinnati, 1965–present)Shakespeare Survey (Cambridge, 1948–present)Shakespeare Jahrbuch (Heidelberg, 1965–present)English Literary RenaissanceEnglish Literary HistoryAudio-Visual MaterialThe Library and the Department have all of the plays of Shakespeare in BBC performances. Departmental copies can be borrowed from the Secretary, Mrs Anne Watts (Hallgarth House).Further Library holdings include: Tragedies: Titus (Titus Andronicus), dir. Julie Taymor, with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange (2000).Romeo and Juliet, dir. Franco Zeffirelli (1968); Romeo and Juliet, dir. Baz Luhrmann, with Leonardo DiCaprio (1996).Julius Caesar, dir. Joseph Mankiewicz, with Marlon Brando, James Mason, and John Gielgud (1953); Julius Caesar, dir. Stuart Burge, with John Gielgud, Jason Robards, and Charlton Heston (1969).Hamlet, dir. Laurence Olivier (1948); Hamlet, dir. John Gielgud, with Richard Burton (1964); Hamlet, dir. Grigori Kozintsev (1964, in Russian); Hamlet, dir. Tony Richardson, with Nicol Williamson as Hamlet and Marianne Faithful as Ophelia (1969); Hamlet, dir. Franco Zeffirelli, with Mel Gibson (1990); Hamlet, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1996).Othello, dir. Orson Welles. (1952); Othello, dir. Stuart Burge, with Laurence Olivier (1965); Othello, dir. Trevor Nunn, with Ian McKellen as Iago (1989); Othello, with Laurence Fishburne as Othello and Kenneth Branagh as Iago (1995).King Lear, dir. Peter Brook, with Paul Scofield (1969); King Lear, dir. Grigori Kozintsev (1970, in Russian; screenplay by Boris Pasternak); a television production of King Lear, with Laurence Olivier (1984); and King Lear, dir. Brian Blessed (1999).Macbeth, dir. Orson Welles (1946); Macbeth, dir. Roman Polanski (1971); Macbeth, dir. Trevor Nunn, with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench (1979); Macbeth, dir. Jeremy Freeston, with Jason Connery and Helen Baxendale.Antony and Cleopatra, dir. Trevor Nunn, with Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman (1972).Comedies:The Taming of the Shrew, dir. Franco Zeffirelli, with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (1966).Love’s Labour’s Lost, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1999).A Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Adrian Noble (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1995); Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir. Michael Hoffman, with Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer (1999).The Merchant of Venice, dir. Jonathan Miller, with Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright (National Theatre, 1969).Much Ado About Nothing, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1993).Twelfth Night, with Alec Guiness, Ralph Richardson, Joan Plowright and Tommy Steele (1969); a television production of Twelfth Night, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1988); Twelfth Night, dir. Trevor Nunn, with Helena Bonham-Carter and Ben Kingsley (1996).The Tempest, dir. George Schaefer, with Richard Burton as Caliban (1960).Histories:Henry VI, dir. Michael Bogdanov (English Shakespeare Company, 1990; the three plays cut to form two: The House of York, The House of Lancaster).Richard III, dir. Laurence Olivier (1955); Richard III, dir. Richard Loncraine, with Ian McKellen (1995).Henry V, dir. Laurence Olivier (1944); Henry V, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1989); Henry V, dir. Michael Bogdanov, with Michael Pennington (English Shakespeare Company, 1990).Adaptations:British Film Institute, Silent Shakespeares (films 1899-1911).Akira Kurosawa (dir.): Throne of Blood (1957, a version of Macbeth); The Bad Sleep Well (1960, which draws loosely on Hamlet); and Ran (1984, a free version of King Lear).Celestino Coronado (dir.), Hamlet, with David and Anthony Meyers as Hamlet (and Laertes) and Helen Mirren as Ophelia (and Gertrude) (1976, ‘the naked Hamlet’); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with the Lindsay Kemp dance company.Derek Jarman (dir.), The Angelic Conversation (1985, fourteen of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, read by Judi Dench).Peter Greenaway (dir.), Prospero’s Books (1991, a version of The Tempest with John Gielgud).Michael Almereyda (dir.), Hamlet, with Ethan Hawke (2000).Library Videos and DVDs: can be borrowed from the information desk on short loan (4 hours). They can also be viewed, by arrangement, in a library seminar room. There are two of these, each able to seat 4 / 6 people, both bookable (and best booked because use is heavy). Productions of which there are duplicate copies (about half of the BBC versions) can be borrowed on three-day loan. Library CDs and audio-cassette tapes: available on one-week loan from the Library information desk. These include Marlowe Society and Caedmon recordings of most of the plays; Renaissance Theatre Company recordings of a few [Kenneth Branagh in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, Sir John Gielgud in King Lear, CD 825.5 SHA]). Also BBC CDs: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, and Hamlet (disc 825.5 SHA). Also Great Shakespeareans (audio recordings, 1890-1950: Disc 825.5 SHA/GRE); and Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings (audio recordings, 1890-1950). CD-ROMs, Websites and Online CollectionsCD-ROM: Shakespeare: His Life, Times, and Works. (undergraduate office, Hallgarth House).CD-ROM: the Norton Shakespeare Workshop, ed. Mark Rose – on MND, Merchant of Venice, 1Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, and The Tempest (University Library).The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM: Text and Performance (University Library). The Internet Shakespeare Editions: with a section on Shakespeare’s life and times, play texts, commentaries, critical material, and materials from performance archives: ‘Hamlet on the Ramparts’, on Hamlet, includes annotated texts, production materials and films from 1913 (Forbes-Robertson), 1920 (Svend Gade), and 1964 (Burton-Gielgud): lists, gives access to, or describes other Shakespeare websites. (First time users are required to log on, and will be given a code name and password.) Blackwell Companions are now freely available online from Durham: .If prompted for a login, give your Durham user id and password.Finding further criticism:MLA database: accessible via Library Catalogue > databasesSHAKESPEARELECTURE LIST 2012-2013Lectures will be held every Thursday at 12 noon. Venue will be notified in September 2012. . Michaelmas Term 2012 OctoberIntroduction Dr Ravelhofer OctoberTragedy (1): Theories of TragedyDr Carver October Tragedy (2): HamletProf. O’Neill November Tragedy (3): Othello Dr Sugg NovemberTragedy (4): Macbeth Prof. O’Neill NovemberTragedy (5): King LearDr Ravelhofer NovemberHistories (1): Richard IIDr Green NovemberA Bloody Banquet: Shakespeare and Dr Sugg andContemporary Drama of Violence Dr Ravelhofer DecemberHistories (2): Henry IV/1,2Prof. Hart DecemberKinds of Shakespearean Character Dr Ravelhofer Epiphany Term 2013 JanuaryVenus and Adonis Dr Ravelhofer JanuaryThe SonnetsDr Crane JanuaryRoman Plays (1): Antony and CleopatraDr Sugg FebruaryRoman Plays (2): Coriolanus Dr Harding FebruaryREADING WEEK FebruaryComedy (1): Theories of ComedyDr Ravelhofer FebruaryComedy (2): A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dr Carver March Comedy (3): All’s Well That Ends Well Dr James March The Comical History of the Merchant of VeniceDr Sugg Easter Term 2013 AprilShakespeare: Allusions and InfluencesProf. O’Neill MayLater Plays (1): Cymbeline Dr Green May Later Plays (2): The Tempest Prof. Hart AMERICAN FICTION22170666221General informationModule convenors, Dr Jenny Terry (email: j.a.terry@durham.ac.uk; Hallgarth House, Rm. 203) and Dr Sam Thomas (email: samuel.thomas@durham.ac.uk, 48 Old Elvet, Rm. 205). We shall each be giving a number of lectures but you will find the monotony relieved by lectures from Dr Daniel Grausam, Professor Stephen Regan, Dr Sarah Wootton, Dr Rachel Lister, Dr Simon James and Dr Mark Sandy. A range of other staff will also be involved in tutoring on the module. On-line support: over the summer, you will gain access to the module resources on duo. This will become a key port of call for information and any relevant notices and announcements. After launching the twitter account @amficdur in 2010-11, we shall be continuing with American Fiction tweets this year. You can start to follow us over the summer! For each topic, you will normally look to duo for back-up materials, book lists and suggestions for independent study outside tutorials. You will also find direct links to some full-text online articles, links to amazing American Literature web-sites; Frequently Asked Questions; assessment advice; easy email facilities for contacting the rest of your tutor group; and more. What to expect on the moduleNovels and short stories have been flourishing in the United States for over two hundred years, and the field of ‘American Literature’ is ever expanding. The concepts of a national literature are themselves now under challenge, and the module will introduce some of these current debates. We can aim only to offer you an introductory survey of the field, but we hope to give you a critically engaged sense of the richness and variety of American fictions and help you begin to understand their place on a more general map of American history and culture. In some lectures, we’ll often move rapidly through a number of texts and contexts, whilst others will offer a more sustained exploration of a specific writer or theme. Throughout the module, we’ll be suggesting possible starting-points for your own further reading and research. The module is designed to: introduce a range of texts by selected writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day; including canonical and less mainstream texts, offering ‘snap-shots’ of US diversity;(in overview lectures, especially) give you a picture of once-popular books which have lost their readership over time (e.g. Riders of the Purple Sage), but which have also created powerful cultural stereotypes challenged by other writers (e.g. Annie Proulx); 54610422910set the fiction within various cultural, historical and theoretical frameworks suggesting cross-currents, continuities and debates, between different writers and different periods;bring into view a range of genres, literary modes and forms;raise questions about the connections between literary texts and ideas of personal and national identities; suggest a variety of approaches to the selected texts, both in terms of their own culture and period, and from the perspective of the twenty-first century (sometimes through sampling of their screen adaptations);encourage you to bring texts together in ways that you find most rewarding and interesting. If you are entering the second year, this lecture list might come as a bit of a shock. The idea isn’t that you read everything on it, for every lecture; but that lectures will help you to see some of what’s available, to choose your own route through. You’ll be able to concentrate in a more rigorous way on particular aspects of the module in tutorials and assessment. If you are writing a dissertation on American Fiction, or you are taking a Special Topic which features American texts, you will find that you still have plenty of options and can easily avoid overlap. StructureWorks grouped together in a unit are linked by recurring concepts and themes, and sometimes by a historical or geographical framework. These units are not intended to be rigid. You will, however, get more out of the module if you attend all the lectures within each unit, even if you have already decided on the specific texts you’ll be focusing on. ExaminationSummative assessment of the module will consist of:One assessed essay (2,000 words) due at the start of the Easter term (30%);An unseen 2? hour exam (70%). (Two essays.)46990134620American Fiction includes a coursework element. The assessed essay takes the form of a passage-based assignment and allows for individual interests and choice. Full details of this, and the rubric of the two-essay exam at each level, will be issued shortly after the start of the academic year. If you find yourself worried or if you need further clarification, please contact us or your tutor well in advance of the essay deadline and/or examinations.Editions and critical readingWe suggest some particular texts below. Unless otherwise indicated, you may find Oxford World’s Classics or Penguin editions convenient and reliable for many works. Wordsworth and Dover also offer you the basic text and the newer Wordsworth editions now have full introductions and scholarly notes (and still cost only ?1-?2). The university library holds Norton anthologies, containing many full texts. Many of the primary texts are now online, often in facsimile first editions; not ideal for longer reads, but great for searchable texts or quick reference; you will find links to many of these on duo. The library is very well stocked in criticism for American Literature, and you will find additional resources if you are prepared to explore other subject shelves – e.g. for history, sociology, art, or anthropology. You will also be able to take advantage of the library’s subscriptions to online journals. The library has DVDs of screen adaptations, and we are building up our collection in the department office. Recommended preliminary reading: Over the summer vacation, you should sample a range of American fiction. See lecture list below. This might be the time to return to a novel you have already read with fresh eyes, or to try out an author you are unfamiliar with. Whatever you read (and whatever preconceptions you might have), making a start early will help to enlarge your sense of the contexts and cultures of the US.You should also try to look at an outline of American history. The one-volume History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan, is both readable and informative [the 2001 edition is the most up to date and is much stronger on some aspects of American history than earlier editions]. More expensive, but possibly available in your local library, is George Brown Tindall and David E. Shi, America: A Narrative History (5th ed. 1999).Enjoy your summer reading! Dr Jenny Terry and Dr Sam Thomas, Module ConvenorsMICHAELMAS TERM 201224257077470Introduction ‘In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?’ Sydney Smith, Edinburgh Review, January, 1820.The first lecture introduces some of the questions which will concern us throughout the module: e.g. problems about the term ‘American Literature’; the continual reinvention of US identity in art; anxieties about relations to Europe and the colonial past; ‘Americanisation’ v. the multiple and diverse voices of the United States; creating a ‘useable past’; the quest for the American epic; the emergence of the dominant white voice; fiction as a challenge to official narratives of historical progress and ownership. (1) The American ‘Multiverse’: Approaching US Fiction Dr TerryI: Searching for the USA: Visions / Voices / IdentitiesWe follow through these questions in the next few lectures with a series of literary ‘case-studies’. The fictions we explore in this unit seek to give voice to a variety of US identities, writing in dialogue and in contest with certain received truths. We explore a number of texts which depict seminal journeys across time, space, cultures, and conflicts (Mark Twain’s vernacular tale of life on the Mississippi, Steinbeck’s narrative of westward migration and dustbowl devastation, Hemingway’s story of doomed romance amidst the chaos of World War One). The overview lectures explore how two of the most prominent figures in the US imagination – the Cowboy and the Native American – have been constructed and reconfigured across literary history. (2) Making an American Book: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)Dr Grausam(3) Overview lecture: Cowboy Fiction, Gender and the Vanishing Frontier: Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) and Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Vol. 1 (1999) Dr Thomas(4) Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)Prof Regan(5) ‘We, the People’: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and New Deal Documentary filmDr Terry(6) Overview lecture: ‘Out of the Silence’: Native American Literary Identities: James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans (1826) and Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine (1993) Dr ListerII: Telling 'The South’ – Reading through Race and RegionThese lectures approach fiction through region, specifically the South. We look at literary representations of the devastations of slavery, at the rising polemic which climaxed in the Civil War (the ‘War Between the States’, 1861-65), and at the reverberations of these racial and socio-political divisions in some later fictions. We look at testimonies from African American autobiographies and survey some of the rhetorical clichés of ‘the plantation’ (e.g. in the cinematic block-buster, Gone With the Wind, 1939). The writings of two Nobel Prize winners mirror these in nightmarish form, with the contradictory and driven narratives of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, 1936, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, 1987, a late twentieth-century memorial to the ‘Sixty Million and more’. Puncturing the myth-making and sentimental gentility of the literature of the dominant white masters, these novels revisit Southern culture in order to face the South’s haunted past.(7) Narratives of Slavery: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), and Harriet Jacobs [Linda Brent], Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) Dr Terry(8) Overview lecture: Southern Myths and Fictions: Kate Chopin, ‘Désirée’s Baby’ (1893) and Gone with the Wind (1936); film (1939) Dr Terry(9) Tales from the Dark House: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936) Dr Grausam(10) 'Not a story to pass on': Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) Dr TerryEPIPHANY TERM 2013III: American Renaissance / American RebelsOriginally coined by the critic F. O. Matthiessen, the term ‘American Renaissance’ describes a moment of extraordinary creativity during the mid-nineteenth century, in which a series of ‘masterpieces’ were forged in a five year period. Whilst the exclusivity of this framework has been vigorously challenged by later scholars, there is no doubt that the years 1850-1855 produced some truly remarkable fiction – all the more remarkable given the fact that these works offer such powerful critiques of US narratives of progress, optimism and enterprise. We therefore begin with Hawthorne’s tormented vision of Puritan history and buried sin before turning to the book against which all claims about the ‘Great American Novel’ are measured: Herman Melville’s epic of whaling, metaphysics and monomania. The unit concludes with Thoreau’s hugely influential writings on ecology and political resistance, tracing the ways in which his legacies (both conservative and radical) continue to be felt. (11) Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850) Dr Wootton(12) In the Name of the Devil: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) Dr Thomas(13) The Nature of Resistance: Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) and ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849)Dr Thomas33020111760IV: Style, Self and SocietyThese lectures look at three of the great ‘stylists’ in the American canon (James, Wharton, Fitzgerald) and the unit explores their fictions with a special emphasis on selfhood and society. Moving from the ‘Gilded Age’ to the ‘Jazz Age’, these literary responses to the expanding American economy open up concerns about form and genre (‘Realism’, ‘Naturalism’, ‘Modernism’ and so on), as well as asking searching questions about ‘values’ (economic, aesthetic and moral); about gender, desire, display and performance; about the role of the leisure-classes and fashion; about marginalisation, entrapment, and poverty. (14) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) Dr JamesREADING WEEK(15) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911) Dr Terry(16) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) [with references to Tender is the Night (1934)] Dr Sandy3302086995V: Post-war Promise / Post-war ParanoiaThis final unit concentrates on the hopes and fears which have come to define the American experience after 1945. Reflecting both the vibrant, transformative promise of post-war society and the paranoiac suspicion that shadowy forces are controlling the direction of American life, these lectures explore a series of oblique and troubled works that have now become cult fictions. In various ways, the novels here dramatise unsettling and sometimes revelatory transitions - from insider to outsider, certainty to doubt, familiarity to estrangement. Beginning with Kerouac’s definitive ‘Beat’ fiction, the unit then swerves off the highway to explore some of America’s weird back roads: Bellow’s stories of shmucks and schlemiels and midlife crises; Plath’s meditation on psychotherapy and mental illness; Pynchon’s unclassifiable tale of conspiracy, questing and secret communities; DeLillo’s postmodern examination of technology, pharmaceuticals and toxic threat. (17) Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)Prof Regan(18) The Anti-Hero: Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King (1959) and Herzog (1963) Dr SandyEASTER TERM 2013(19) The Cold War: Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)Dr Grausam(20) Postal Politics: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) [with some brief references to Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)] Dr Thomas(21) Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) Dr GrausamCritical Reading: Selective Book-ListsN.B. We do not expect you to read everything on these lists! Neither do we expect you to confine yourself to the works suggested here. Use them as a guide to selecting critical and contextual reading when you want some basic information or plan to follow up a topic in more detail. When it comes to journals, you can do global searches for a topic, text or author using programmes such as JSTOR, Project Muse or Literature Online. We recommend publications such as: Journal of American Studies, American Literature, American Literary Realism, Southern Quarterly, African American Review, American Literary History, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Arizona Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction, American Literary Scholarship [this is an annual review of mainstream authors and topics, summarising criticism which has appeared during the year]. For historical interest, try The Making of America (Google this), for searchable reproductions of many famous 19th-century journals.General contexts and issuesCrane, Greg. The Cambridge Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century American Novel (2007).Gidley, Mick, ed. Modern American Culture: An Introduction (1993). Gidley, Mick and Robert Lawson-Peebles, eds. Modern American Landscapes (1995).Lamb, Robert Paul and G. R. Thompson, eds. A Companion to American Fiction 1865-1914 (2009).Messent, Peter. New Readings in the American Novel: Narrative Theory and its Application (1998). Mitchell, Jeremy and Richard Maidment, eds. Open University: The United States in the Twentieth Century: Culture (1994), esp. chapters 1 and 10: Kenneth Thompson, ‘Identity and Belief’ and Allan Lloyd-Smith, ‘Is There an American Culture?’Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992). Reynolds, Guy. Twentieth-Century American Women’s Fiction: A Critical Introduction (1999).Robinson, Lillian S. ‘Treason our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon,’ in The New Feminist Criticism, ed. Elaine Showalter (1986).Rowe, John Carlos, ed.. Post-Nationalist American Studies (1998).Ruland, Richard and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. A History of American Literature (1991).Scofield, Martin. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story (2006).Seed, David. A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction (2010).Showalter, Elaine. Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’sWriting(1991). [esp. Ch.1 ‘American Questions’]Stonely, Peter and Cindy Weinstein, eds. A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900-1950 (2007).Tanner, Tony. City of Words: American Fiction: 1950-1970 (1971).---. Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men (1987).Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present (revised edition,2005).I: Searching for the USA: Visions/Voices/IdentitiesMark Twain [Samuel Clemens], Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Text: Oxford World’s Classics (introduction by Emory Elliott), or other unabridged. The Wordsworth Classics edition, with introduction and notes by Stuart Hutchinson, also includes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The Virginia ‘Mark Twain in His Times’ site, will give you details of textual controversies and online resources. Messent, Peter. The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain (2007).Railton, Stephen. Mark Twain: A Short Introduction (2003).Abernathy, Jeff. To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel (2003).Bush, Harold K. Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age (2007).Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn, The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn (1998)Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Lighting out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture (1997)--- ed. A Historical Guide to Mark Twain (2002).Graff, Gerald and James Phelan. ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (1995).Gray, Richard, and Owen Robinson, eds. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (2004) [Chapter on Twain, within good intro. to southern literary contexts]. [Online. Library e-resources] Kaplan, Fred. The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography (2003).Lamb, Robert Paul. ‘America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain’ in A Companion to American Fiction 1865-1914, ed. Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson (2009). [Online. Library e-resources]Lindberg, Gary. The Confidence Man in American Fiction (1982) Mensh, Elaine and Mensh, Harry. Black, White and ‘Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream (2000). Messent, Peter and Louis J. Budd, eds. A Companion to Mark Twain (2005). [Online. Library e-resources]Quirk, Tom. Coming to Grips with ‘Huckleberry Finn’: Essays on a Book, a Boy and a Man (1993).---. ‘The Realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ in The Cambridge Companion to Realism and Naturalism, ed. Donald Pizer (1995). Robinson, Forrest G, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain (1995).Stoneley, Peter. Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic (1992).Skandera Trombley, Laura E. and Michael J. Kiskis, eds. Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship (2001).Cowboy Fiction, Gender and the Vanishing FrontierAquila, Richard. Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture (1996).Etulain, Richard. Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art (1996)..-- Telling Western Stories: from Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (1999).Packard, Chris. Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2007).Mitchell, Lee Clark. Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film (1998).Mort, John. Read the High Country: A Guide to Western Books and Films (2006).Pilkington, William T. Critical Essays on the Western American Novel (1980).Rosowski. Susan J. Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature (2000).Savage, William W. The Cowboy Hero: His Image in American History & Culture (1979).Slatta, Richard. The Cowboy Encyclopedia (1994).--. The Mythical West: An Encyclopedia of Legend, Lore and Popular Culture (2001).Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (1998).Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (2nd edition, 2007).Taylor, Lonn and Ingrid Maar. The American Cowboy (1983).Westbrook, Max, ed. A Literary History of the American West (1987).--. Updating the Literary West (1997).Whale, Alf H. The Cowboy Hero and Its Audience: Popular Culture As Market Derived Art (2000).Witschi, Nicholas S., ed. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West (2011).Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage.Text: Oxford World’s Classics (excellent introduction by Lee Clark Mitchell). This text follows the first edition published by Harper Brothers in 1912. Blake, Kevin S. ‘Zane Grey and Images of the American West’, Geographical Review, 85.2 (1995). [via JSTOR]Bourassa, Alan. ‘Riders of the Virtual Sage: Zane Grey, Cormac McCarthy, and the Transformation of the Popular Western’, Criticism, 48.4 (2006). [via Project Muse]Gruber, Frank. Zane Grey: A Biography (1970).Jackson, Carlton. Zane Grey (1989).Kant, Candace C. Zane Grey’s Arizona (1984).Kimball, Arthur G. Ace of Hearts: The Westerns of Zane Grey (1993).May, Stephen J. Zane Grey: Romancing the West (1997).Mitchell, Lee Clark. ‘White Slaves and Purple Sage: Plotting Sex in Zane Grey’s West American Literary History, 6.2 (1994). [via JSTOR]Pauly, Thomas H. Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women (2007).Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Vol. 1Text: Any version but do make sure you get the right volume! The collection is also available as Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories (film tie-in edition, Harper, 2005).Arosteguy, Katie O. ‘“It was all a hard, fast ride that ended in the mud”: Deconstructing the Myth of the Cowboy in Annie Proulx’s Close Range: Wyoming Stories’, Western American Literature, 45.2 (2010). [via Project Muse]Asquith, Mark. Annie Proulx's ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘Postcards’ (2009). Block Richard. ‘“I’m nothin. I’m nowhere”: Echoes of Queer Messianism in Brokeback Mountain’, CR: The New Centennial Review, 9.1 (2009). [via Project Muse]Brower, Sue. ‘“They'd Kill Us if They Knew”: Transgression and the Western’, Journal of Film and Video, 62.4 (2010). [via Project Muse]Dolezal, Joshua A. ‘Literary Activism, Social Justice, and the Future of Bioregionalism’,Ethics & the Environment, 13.1 (2008). [via Project Muse]Howard, John. ‘Of Closets and Other Rural Voids’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 13.1 (2007).Hunt, Alex, ed. The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx: Rethinking Regionalism (2009).Proulx, Annie, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (2005).Proulx, Annie (ed). Red Desert: History of a Place (2008). [ecological project]Rood, Karen Lane. Understanding Annie Proulx (2001).Scanlon, Julie. ‘Why Do We Still Want To Believe?: The Case of Annie Proulx’, Journal of Narrative Theory, 38.1 (2008). [via Project Muse]Stacy, James. Reading Brokeback Mountain: Essays on the Story and the Film (2007).Film: Brokeback Mountain. Dir. Ang Lee (2005). Starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to ArmsText: any available. Berman, Ronald. Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell (2005).---. Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway: Language and Experience (2003).Comley, Nancy R. and Scholes, Robert, Hemingway’s Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text (1994).Donaldson, Scott, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway (1995).Fleming, Robert E. Hemingway and the Natural World (1999).Lodge, David. Working with Structuralism (1981), ch. 2, and The Modes of Modern Writing (1977). [Very short but useful section on Hemingway and Modernism].Messent, Peter. Ernest Hemingway (1992).Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography (1985).Raeburn, John. Fame Becomes Him: Hemingway as a Public Writer (1984).Reynolds, Michael. The Young Hemingway (1986), Hemingway in Paris (1989) and Hemingway the final years (1999).Schwenger, Peter. Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature (1984).Spilka, Mark. Hemingway’s Quarrel with Androgyny (1990).Strychacz, Thomas. Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity (2003).Vernon, Alex. Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter and Tim O’Brien (2004).Wagner-Martin, Linda. Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life (2007).Woods, Gregory, ‘The Injured Sex: Hemingway’s Voice of Masculine Anxiety’, in Judith Still and Michael Worton, eds. Textuality and Sexuality: Reading Theories and Practices (1993).John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal DocumentaryText: Penguin Classics (introduction by Robert DeMott).Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Three Tenant Families: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941).Badger, Anthony J. The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-40 (1989). [History]Bakker, Kees. Joris Ivens and the Documentary Context (1999).Bauman, John F., and Thomas H. Coode, In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the Agony of the American People (1988).Bloom, Harold, ed. John Steinbeck (Modern Critical Views) (1987).Briffault, Robert, The Mothers (1927).Coers, Donald V. et al, eds. After the Grapes of Wrath (1994).Cook, Sylvia Jenkins. From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction (1976).Hayashi, Tetsumaro, ed. John Steinbeck (1994).Lookingbill, Brad D. Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the EcologicalImagination, 1929-1941 (2001).Martin, S. California Writers: Jack London, John Steinbeck, the Tough Guys (1983.)Parrish, Michael E, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 (1992).Pauly, Thomas H. ‘Gone With the Wind and The Grapes of Wrath as Hollywood Histories of the Great Depression’ in Hollywood’s America: United States History Through Its Films, ed. Steven Mintz and Randy Roberts. (3rd edition 2001).Railshack, Brian, ‘John Steinbeck’ A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, ed. David Seed (2010).Schultz, Jeffrey and Luchen Li, Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference Book to His Life and Work (2005).Shillinglaw, Susan, and Jackson J Benson, eds. Of Men and Their Making: The Selected Non-Fiction of John Steinbeck (2002).Film: The Grapes of Wrath. Dir. John Ford (1940).New Deal Documentaries: Pare Lorentz, Joris Ivens, H B McClure (1934, 1936, 1937, 1940).Native American Literary IdentitiesInteresting selections of hard-to-find texts by Native American story-tellers and writers are included in the Norton and Heath anthologies of American literature. You might browse these anthologies for C19th voices (e.g. William Apess, ‘An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man’ 1833, in Heath Vol. I; or Chippewa legends, same volume); or look in the later volumes of these anthologies, for extracts from such contemporary writers as Leslie Marmon Silko (e.g Ceremony, 1977, Storyteller, 1981); N. Scott Momaday (e.g House Made of Dawn, 1968, The Way to Rainy Mountain, 1969), Sherman Alexie (e.g. The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, 1997). The lecture will attempt to contextualise such voices against white literary mythologies of ‘the Indian’ in such texts as James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (1826).Native American literature – general criticismDeloria, Philip Joseph. Playing Indian (1998).Dennis, Helen Mary. Native American Literature: Toward a Spatialized Reading (2007).Grice, Helena et al. Beginning Ethnic American Literatures (2001). [Ch. 2 provides a useful introduction]Krupat, Arnold. The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon (1989).Honour, Hugh. The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time (1976). [Painting, sculpture, writing]Lundquist, Suzanne Evertsen. Native American Literatures: An Introduction (2004).Porter, Joyce and Kenneth M. Roemer. The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005).James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the MohicansText: The Last of the Mohicans ed. John McWilliams, Oxford World’s Classics. Excellent introduction, full bibliography, contextual sections and notes. Or other available, but watch out for abridged versions.Clark, Robert. History, Ideology & Myth in American Fiction, 1823-52 (1984).Howard, David. ‘James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales’, in Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1966), ed. David Howard, John Lucas, John Goode.McWilliams, John. ‘Red Satan: Cooper and the American Indian Epic’ in James Fenimore Cooper: New Critical Essays, ed. Robert Clark (1985).Tawil, Ezra J. The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance (2006).Tompkins, Jane. Sensational Designs (1985), ch. 4. ‘No Apologies for the Iroquois: A New Way to Read the Leatherstocking Novels’.Film: The Last of the Mohicans. Dir. Michael Mann (1992). Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Russell Means and Eric Schweig.Louise Erdrich, Love MedicineText: Love Medicine: New and Expanded Version, New York: Holt, 1993 or other editions but make sure that you read the revised version as this has extra stories. Chavkin, Allan, ed. The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich (1999).--- and Nancy Feyl Chavkin, eds. Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris (1994).Jacobs, Connie A. The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of her People (2001).Nagel, James. ‘The Ethnic Resonance of Genre: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine,’ The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre(2001).Stookey, Lorena L. Louise Erdrich: A Critical Companion (1999).Wong, Hertha D. Sweet, ed. Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine: A Casebook (2000).II. Telling 'The South' – Reading through Race and RegionNineteenth Century Slave NarrativesFrederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American SlaveText: (online Project Gutenberg) or any printed.McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass (1991).Reising, Russell. The Unusable Past (1986). [Douglass as alternative to white canon]Rice, Alan, Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic (2003). Rice, Alan and Martin Crawford, eds. Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass (1999).Smith, Valerie. Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative (1987).Stauffer, John, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002).Sundquist, Eric, ed. Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays (1990).Sweeney, Fionnghuala. Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World (2007).Tawil, Ezra J. The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the FrontierRomance (2006).Wood, Marcus, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865 (2000).Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Text: (online Project Gutenberg) or any printed.Bauer, Dale and Philip Gould, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing (2001).Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (1987).Garfield, Deborah M., and Rafia Zafar, eds. Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays (1996).Jones, Jacqueline. Labour of Love, Labour of Sorrow: Black Women from Slavery to the Present (1985).McKay, Nellie Y., and Frances Smith Foster, eds. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Contexts, Criticism (2001).Nelson, Dana D. The Word in Black and White: Reading Race in American Literature, 1638-1867 (1992). [ch. 7 on Jacobs]Washington, Mary Helen. Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960 (1987).Yellin, Jean Fagan. Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture(1989).---. Harriet Jacobs: A Life (2004).Southern Myths and FictionsTo set Faulkner and Morrison in context, we shall try to offer a survey of some ‘popular’ images of the South from fiction and film. As part of this overview, the lecture will refer to Margaret Mitchell’s blockbuster romance Gone With the Wind (1936) and the 1939 film adaptation of the novel. Kate Chopin’s short fiction ‘Désirée’s Baby’ (1893) will also be looked at in terms of Southern myths and anxieties.General:Ayers, Edward L. and Bradley L. Mittendorf. The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory and Fiction (1997). [for dipping]Gray, Richard, and Owen Robinson, eds. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (2004).Roberts, Diane. The Myth of Aunt Jemima: Representations of Race and Region (1994).For Kate Chopin’s short story ‘Désirée’s Baby’ see the Oxford World’s Classics The Awakening and Other Stories (2000) (edited and introduced by Pamela Knights). Alternatively, you will find a free, reliable web edition at Project Gutenberg within The Awakening and Selected Short Stories volume.Bauer, Dale and Philip Gould, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-CenturyAmerican Women’s Writing (2001).Beer, Janet, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008).--. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction (2005).Jones, Anne Goodwyn. ‘Kate Chopin: The Life Behind the Mask’. Tomorrow is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936 (1981). [Useful early introduction]Ostman Heather. Kate Chopin in the Twenty-first Century: New Critical Essays (2008). Showalter, Elaine. Sister’s Choice (1989). Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America (1985).Taylor, Helen, Gender, Race and Region in the Writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart and Kate Chopin (1989).Toth, Emily. Kate Chopin (1990). [The standard biography]---. and Per Seyersted. Kate Chopin’s Private Papers (1998). [Letters, diaries, shortsketches, juvenilia]Walker, Nancy A. Kate Chopin: A Literary Life (2001). Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind Text: any available.Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American film, 1900-1942 (1977).Gelfant, Blanche H. ‘Gone With the Wind and the Impossibilities of Fiction’ in Women Writing in America: Voices in Collage (1984). [Stimulating examination of the contradictions, repressions and complexities of the novel]Jones, Anne Goodwyn. Tomorrow is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936 (1981). [Good general starting point]MacKethan, Lucinda H. Daughters of Time: Creating Woman’s Voice in Southern Story(1990).Pauly, Thomas H. ‘Gone With the Wind and The Grapes of Wrath as Hollywood Histories of the Great Depression’ in Hollywood’s America: United States History Through Its Films, ed. Steven Mintz and Randy Roberts. (3rd. ed. 2001).Pines, Jim. Blacks in Film (1975).Silk, Catherine and John. Racism and Anti-Racism in American Popular Culture: Portrayals of African-Americans in Fiction and Film (1990).Smith, Lillian. Killers of the Dream (1949). [esp. the chapter ‘Three Ghost Stories’. Reflections on the white southern psyche by a white southern woman – historically well in advance of its time]Taylor, Helen. Scarlett’s Women: ‘Gone With the Wind’ and Its Female Fans (1989). [Useful starting point for many southern motifs and problems] Film: Gone with the Wind. Dir. Victor Fleming and George Cukor (1939). Starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.William Faulkner and Toni Morrison together:Dussere, Erik. Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery (2003).Kolmerten, Carol A, Stephen M. Ross and Judith Bryant Wittenberg, eds. Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-envisioned (1997).Weinstein, Philip. What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (1997). [Interweaving of criticism on both these writers] William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! Text: Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Vintage).Peek, Charles A. ‘William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha’. A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, ed. David Seed (2010).Matthews, John T. William Faulkner: Seeing through the South (2009).Towner, Theresa M. The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner (2008) Abernathy, Jeff. To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel (2003).Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984). [Has an interesting chapter on Absalom!]Fargnoli, A. Nicholas and Michael Golay, eds. William Faulkner A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (2002).Gray, Richard. The Life of William Faulkner (1994). [Overview of writings and life]Hamblin, Robert W., and Charles A. Peek. A William Faulkner Encyclopaedia (1999).Hannon, Charles. Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture (2005).Hobson, Fred, ed. William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook (2003). Labatt, Blair. Faulkner the Storyteller (2005).Minter, David. A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner (1994). [Short section, showing larger contexts]Moreland, Richard C., ed. A Companion to William Faulkner (2007). [Online]Peek, Charles A, and Robert W. Hamblin, eds. A Companion to Faulkner Studies (2004). [Chapters on different critical and theoretical approaches] Rio-Jelliffe, R. Obscurity's Myriad Components: The Theory and Practice of WilliamFaulkner (2001).Roberts, Diane. Faulkner and the Myth of Southern Womanhood (1994). [also useful for general Southern motifs]Robinson, Owen. Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction (2006).Weinstein, Philip M. Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (1992).--- ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (1995).Toni Morrison, Beloved Text: any available.Andrews, William L, and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook (1999).Bloom, Harold, ed. Toni Morrison (2002).Conner, Marc C, ed. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable (2000).Ferguson, Rebecca. ‘History, Memory and Language in Toni Morrison’s Beloved’ in Susan Sellers, ed., Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice.---. Rewriting Black Identities: Transition and Exchange in the Novels of Toni Morrison(2007).Furman, Jan. Toni Morrison’s Fiction (1996).Gates, Henry Louis, and K.A. Appiah, eds. Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (1993).Grewal, Gurleen, Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison (1998).Matus, Jill. Toni Morrison (1998).McKay, Nellie, ed. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison (1988).Middleton, David L., ed. Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Contemporary Criticism (1997).Page, Philip. Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison’s Novels (1995).Plasa, Carl, ed. Beloved (1998). [overview of criticism to that date, with full bibliography]Solomon, Barbara H, ed. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1998).Stave, Shirley, ed. Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities (2006).Tally, Justine, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison (2007).Terry, Jennifer. ‘Toni Morrison’, in A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, ed. David Seed (2010).Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South (1998.) [Examines the case of Margaret Garner]There are Special Issues of Studies in the Literary Imagination (1998), African American Review (2001), Modern Fiction Studies (1993 and 2006) and MELUS (2011) on Toni Morrison.African American Literature – General (useful for the Slave Narratives and Toni Morrison)Baker, Houston. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writings (1991).Bell, W. Bernard. The Afro-American Novel and its Tradition (1987).--. The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches (2004).Christian, Barbara, Black Woman Novelists (1980).---. Black Feminist Criticism (1985).Evans, Mari. Black Women Writers at Work (1983).Gates, H. L. ‘Writing “Race” and the Difference It Makes’, Critical Inquiry, 12.1 (1983).---. Black American Literature and Literary Theory (1984). ---. The Signifying Monkey (1988).Gates, Henry Louis, and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2004).Giddings, Paula. Where and When I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (1984). Graham, Maryemma, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel (2004).Grice, Helena et al, eds. Beginning Ethnic American Literatures (2001). [Chapter 3 provides a very useful starting point]Jones, Gayle. Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature (1991).McDowell, Deborah E. and Rampersad, Arnold. Slavery and the Literary Imagination (1989).Plasa, Carl, and Ring, Betty J, eds. The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison (1994). Russell, Sandi. Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present (new ed., 2002). [Useful starting point]Willis, Susan. ‘Black Women Writers: Taking a Critical Perspective,’ in Gayle Greene and Coppeliaed Kahn, eds. Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism (1985).---. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience (1987).III. American Renaissance / American RebelsGeneralBrodhead, Richard. Hawthorne, Melville and the Novel (1976).Chase, Richard. The American Novel and Its Tradition (1957).Lewis, W. R. B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (1955).Matthiessen, Francis Otto. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1968).Pease, Donald. Visionary Company: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context (1987).Thomas, Brook. Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe and Melville (1991). Tanner, Tony. The Reign of Wonder (1965). [Interesting early perspective]Tallack, Douglas. ‘Transcendentalism and Pragmatism’ in Gidley, Modern American Culture (1993). [Good bibliography]Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville (1988).Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet LetterText: any unabridged. (Check that it begins with ‘The Custom House’)Murfin, Ross C., ed. The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1992). (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) [Text + essays to represent some different theoretical approaches]Arac, Jonathan.‘Reading the Letter’, Diacritics 9 (1979).Baym, Nina. The Shape of Hawthorne’s Career (1976). Bosco, Ronald A. and Jillmarie Murphy, Hawthorne in his own time: A biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates (2007).Brodhead, Richard. ‘Hawthorne, Melville and the Fiction of Prophecy’, in Nathaniel Hawthorne: New Critical Essays, ed. A. Robert Lee (1982).McCall, Dan. Citizens of Somewhere Else: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James (1999).Miller, Edwin Haviland. Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1991).Millington, Richard. Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne’s Fiction (1992).--. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne (2004).Leland S. Person. The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007).Pfister, Joel. The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne’s Fiction (1991).Reynolds, Larry J., ed. A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001).Herman Melville, Moby-DickText: Moby-Dick: The Penguin Edition (1992), introduced by Andrew Delbanco, offers the text currently seen as definitive.Annesley, James. ‘Melville’s No Logo: Moby Dick and the Globalization Debate’, Third Text, 18:1 (2004). [online. Alternatively, see the relevant section of Annesely’s Fictions of Globalization (2006)]Bellis, Peter J. No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville (1990).Bloom, Harold, ed. Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ (2009).Brodtkorb, Paul. Ishmael’s White World: A Phenomenological Reading of ‘Moby Dick’ (1965). Bryant, John. ‘Moby Dick as Revolution,’ in R. S. Levine, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (1998).Cesarino, Cesare. Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, and Conrad in Crisis (2000).Guetti, James. The Limits of Metaphor: Melville, Conrad and Faulkner (1967). Hayes, Kevin J. The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville (2007).James, C. L. R. Mariners, Renegades and Castaways (1985).Jehlen, Myra. American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation and the Continent (1986).Kelley, Wyn. Melville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in the Nineteenth Century (1991).Karcher, Carolyn L. Shadow Over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race and Violence in Melville’s America (1980).Leavis, Charles R. A Coincidence of Wants: The Novel and Neoclassical Economics (2000).MacKenthun, Gesa. ‘Postcolonial Masquerade: Antebellum Fiction and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,’ in Klaus Schmidt, ed. Early America Re-explored (2000).Olsen, Charles. Call Me Ishmael (1947).Peretz, Eyal. Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of ‘Moby-Dick’(2003).Post-Lauria, Sheila. Corresponding Colorings: Melville in the Market Place (1996).Rogin, Michael Paul. Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (1983).Sanborn, Geoffrey. The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader (1998).Thoreau: Walden and ‘Civil Disobedience’Texts: Any unabridged version of Walden will be fine but the World’s Classics edition is preferable. ‘Civil Disobedience’ can be found in the Norton Anthology and online via Project Gutenberg.Bennett, Jane. Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild (1994).--. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2000). [theoretical work which includes various further reflections on Thoreau]Bloom, Harold, ed. Henry David Thoreau (Modern Critical Views) (1988).Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture (1995).Cain, William E., ed. A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau (2000).Cavell, Walden. The Senses of Walden (1992). [philosophical reading]Clark, Timothy. The Cambridge Introduction to Literature of the Environment (2011). [see chapter on Walden]Edel, Leon. Henry D. Thoreau (1970).Gayet, Claude. The Intellectual Development of Henry David Thoreau (1981).Harding, Walter et al, eds. Henry David Thoreau: Studies and Commentaries (1972).Hildebidle, John. Thoreau: A Naturalist’s Liberty (1983). Knott, John. Imagining Wild America (2004).Mariotti, Shannon L. Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (2010). [emphasis on political philosophy]Myers, Joel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau (1995).Newman, Lance. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism and the Class Politics of Nature (2005).Novak, Barbara. Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature (2007). [see chapter on Thoreau and Indian selfhood]Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert and Laura Dassow Walls. More Day to Dawn: Thoreau’s Walden for the Twenty-first Century (2006).Porte, Joel. Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed?(2004).Robert D. Richardson, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (1988). [biography]Schneider, Richard J. Thoreau’s Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing (2000).Turner, Jack. A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau (2009).Walls, Laura Dassow. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (1995).IV: Style, Self and Society General material on the Gilded Age (also note that the journal American Literary Realism focuses particularly on this period).Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century (1991). Banta, Martha. Imagining American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History (1987). [Portraiture, visuals, fashion and representation]Bender, Bert. The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1916 (1996). [Scientific discourses of the period]Brogan, Hugh. History of the United States (2001). [esp. Book 4, ‘The Age of Gold’]Brown, Bill. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (2003). [Cultural history]Chandler, Marilyn R. Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (1991).Gilman, Charlotte Perkins [Stetson]. Women and Economics (1898). [Ground-breaking study on e.g. the woman as ‘trophy wife’]Kaplan, Amy. The Social Construction of American Realism (1988).Levine, Jessica. Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton (2002).Messent, Peter. New Readings in the American Novel: Narrative Theory and Its Application (1990; rev. 1998). [A Portrait of a Lady and The House of Mirth, via Roland Barthes]Nettels, Elsa. Language and Gender in American Fiction: Howells, James, Wharton and Cather (1996).Nye, David E. ‘Industrialization, Business and Consumerism’ in Modern American Culture: An Introduction (1993) ed. Mick Gidley.Pizer, Donald, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism (1995).Stange, Margit, Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves and the Market in Women (1998). [Wharton and Chopin]Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). [Pioneering sociological work on ‘Conspicuous Consumption’ and ‘Conspicuous Leisure’]Henry James: The Portrait of a LadyText: Oxford World’s Classics series, ed. Roger Luckhurst, 2009. You may, however, use any convenient edition, but check whether you are reading the first book version (1881) or the later text. If you are interested in looking at the original serial publication, go to the Making of America, <;. Then to: Journals: The Atlantic Monthly, November 1880, to start with the first instalment. The ‘Henry James Scholar’s Guide to Web Sites’ is another excellent resource: <, Elizabeth. A Woman’s Place in the Novels of Henry James (1984).Blackmur, R.P. Introd. Henry James: The Art of the Novel (1934). [collected prefaces]Cameron, Sharon. Thinking in Henry James (1989).Cannon, Kelly. Henry James and Masculinity: The Man at the Margins (1994)Freedman, Jonathan, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Henry James (1998).Graham, Kenneth. Henry James: A Literary Life (1994). [introductory]Griffin, Susan M., ed. Henry James Goes to the Movies (2002).James, Henry. The Critical Muse: Selected Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Gard (1987). [Useful selection of James’s own writings about literature]Kress, Jill M. The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton (2002).Lustig, T. J. Henry James and the Ghostly (1994).Meissner, Colin. Henry James and the Language of Experience (1999).Otten, Thomas J. A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World (2006).Person, Leland S. Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity (2003).Poole, Adrian. Henry James (1991). [short introduction]Porte, Joel, ed. New Essays on ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (1990).Rawlings, Peter, ed. Henry James and the Abuse of the Past (2005).---. Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies (2007).Salmon, Richard. Henry James and the Culture of Publicity (1997).Woolf, Judith. Henry James: The Major Novels (1991). [general introduction]Zacharias, Greg. W. A Companion to Henry James (2008). Edith Wharton General (note that the Library takes the print form of The Edith Wharton Review).Beer, Janet. Edith Wharton (2002).Bell, Millicent, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton (1996).Bloom, Harold, ed. Edith Wharton (Modern Critical Views) (1986).Boswell, Ann. Edith Wharton on Film (2007). Dwight, Eleanor. Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life (1994).---. The Gilded Age: Edith Wharton and Her Contemporaries (1996) [pictorial insights into EW’s life, times, travels and cultural vistas]Fedorko, Kathy. Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton (1995). [Opens up dimensions beyond Realism.]Fryer, Judith. Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather (1986). Joslin, Katherine. Edith Wharton (1991).Kassanoff, Jennie A. Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (2004).Killoran, Helen. Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion (1996).---. The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton (2001).Knights, Pamela. The Cambridge Introduction to Edith Wharton (2009).---. ‘Edith Wharton’. A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, ed. David Seed. (2010).Kress, Jill M. The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton (2002). Lee, Hermione. Edith Wharton (2007). [Now the standard literary life]Lewis, R. W. B. Edith Wharton: A Biography (1997)[standard before Lee]Montgomery, Maureen E. Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton’s New York (1998). [Cultural history.]Orland, Emily J. Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts (2006). Papke, Mary E. Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton (1990).Preston, Claire. Edith Wharton’s Social Register (2000).Singley, Carol J., ed. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton (2003). Tuttleton, James W, Kristin O. Lauer and Margaret P. Murray, eds. Edith Wharton: The Contemporary Reviews (1992).Waid, Candace. Edith Wharton’s Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing (1991). Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. A Feast of Words. The Triumph of Edith Wharton (1977). [influential early Freudian approach]The House of MirthText: No controversies about this text, so use any convenient edition; searchable first edition online via ‘Text Archive’. Beer, Janet, Pamela Knights and Elizabeth Nolan. Edith Wharton’s ‘The House of Mirth’ (2007). [Readings on the Gothic, sexuality, genre, illustration, rewritings, adaptations; annotated bibliography]Bronfen, Elisabeth. Over Her Dead Body. Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic (1992) [Ch. 13. ‘Rigor has set in: the wasted bride’]Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan. No Man’s Land: The Place of Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Vol. II, ‘Sexchanges’ (1989). Hochman, Barbara. ‘The Awakening and The House of Mirth: Plotting Experience and Experiencing Plot’. The Cambridge Companion to Realism and Naturalism, ed. Donald Pizer (1995).Howard, Maureen. ‘The House of Mirth: The Bachelor and the Baby’ in The Cambridge Companion to E.W., ed. Millicent Bell (1995). Hughes, Clair. Dressed in Fiction (2006). [Ch. 8 ‘Consuming Clothes: Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth]Singley, Carol, ed. Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: A Casebook (2003).Showalter, Elaine. Sister’s Choice (1989). [Ch. 5, ‘The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth’]Totten, Gary, ed. Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture (2007). [See esp. Chs. 5, 7, and 9 – essays on ‘Picturing Lily’, consumerism and ‘the bachelor girl’.]Film: The House of Mirth. Dir. Terence Davies (2000). Starring Gillian Anderson.Ethan FromeText: Many available, and no disputes, except for the crucial representation of the long ellipses between ‘sections’. The lecture will refer to the 2004 new Wordsworth edition (introduction and notes by Pamela Knights); see also Norton Critical edition (introduction by Elizabeth Ammons); or online at Text Archive (first edition).Banta, Martha. ‘The Ghostly Gothic of Wharton’s Everyday World’. American Literary Realism 1870-1910. 27.1 (1994).Bernard, Kenneth. ‘Imagery and Symbolism in Ethan Frome’ (1961), Readings on ‘Ethan Frome’, ed. Christopher Smith (details below).Blackall, Jean Frantz. ‘Edith Wharton’s Art of Ellipsis’. Journal of Narrative Technique. 17. (1987). [Extracts in Norton Critical Ed]Farland, Maria Magdalena. ‘Ethan Frome and the “Springs” of Masculinity’, Modern Fiction Studies 42.4 (1996).MacCallan, W.D. ‘The French Draft of Ethan Frome’. Yale University Library Gazette. 27.1 (1953). [Wharton’s first attempt at this story]Smith, Christopher, ed. Readings on ‘Ethan Frome’ (2000) [anthology of essays exemplifying various critical approaches. Note: some are edited extracts.]Wharton, Edith. The Uncollected Critical Writings, ed. Frederick Wegener (1996) [for Wharton’s commentaries on Ethan Frome].Film: Ethan Frome. Dir. John Madden (1993). Starring Liam Neeson and Patricia ArquetteF. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby and Tender is the NightText: The Great Gatsby Penguin; or Wordsworth (good introduction and notes by Guy Reynolds); Tender is the Night Wordsworth or Penguin Classic [In the case of Tender is the Night please check that you are using the 1934 edition which opens with the Riviera scene]Berman, Ronald. The Great Gatsby and Modern Times (1994).Blazek, William and Laura Rattray, eds. Twenty-First Century Readings of Tender is the Night (2007).Bruccoli, Matthew J. and Judith S. Baughman. A Reader’s Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Tender is the Night’ (1996).---. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1981).---. F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship (1996).Holquist, Michael, Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World (1990). [see final chapter on Gatsby]Hook, Andrew. F.Scott-Fitzgerald: A Literary Life (2002).Jackson, R. Bryer, Alan Margolies, and Ruth Prigozy, eds. F. Scott-Fitzgerald: New Perspectives (2000).Le Vot, André, trans. W. Byron. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (1983).Meyers, Jeffrey. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (1994).Matterson, Stephen. The Great Gatsby (1990) [Student guide. Useful starting point]O’Meara, Lauraleigh. Lost City: Fitzgerald’s New York (2002).Parkinson, Kathleen. F. Scott-Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night: A Critical Study (1986).Prigozy, Ruth, ed. The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002).Tredell, Nicholas. F. Scott Fitzgerald: ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1999). [Critical guide]Way, Brian. Scott Fitzgerald and the Art of Social Fiction (1980).V. Post-war Promise / Post-war ParanoiaJack Kerouac, On the RoadText: Penguin Classics (introduction by Ann Charters).Abel, Marco. ‘Speeding Across the Rhizome: Deleuze Meets Kerouac On the Road’. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 48.1 (2002). [theoretical reading. via Project Muse]Cunnell, Howard, ed. Jack Kerouac: On the Road: The Original Scroll (2007). [JK’s original format].Ellis, R. J. Liar! Liar!: Jack Kerouac Novelist (1999).Gair, Christopher. The American Counterculture (2007). [good general resource, see section on the Beats]Holton, Robert. ‘Kerouac Among the Fellahin: On The Road To The Postmodern’. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 1.2 (1996). [via Project Muse]Hunt, Tim. Kerouac’s Crooked Road: The Development of a Fiction (1996).Hrebeniak, Michael. Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form (2006).Lee, A. Robert. Modern American Counter Writing (2010). Malcolm, Douglas. ‘“Jazz America”: Jazz and African American Culture in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road’, Contemporary Literature 40.1 (1999).Martinez, Manuel Luis. Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera (2003). [Kerouac and the Beats reinterpreted in light of Chicano studies] Mikelli, Eftychia. ‘“Passing Everybody and Never Halting”: Dromos and Speed in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road’, Cultural Politics, 8.1 (2012). [via Project Muse]Nicosia, Gerald. Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac (1983).Theado, Matt. Understanding Jack Kerouac (2000).Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King and HerzogTexts: Any available. Clayton, John Jacob. Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man (1968).Cohen, Sarah B. Saul Bellow’s Enigmatic Laugh (1974).Cronin, Gloria L., and L. H. Goldman, eds. Saul Bellow in the 1980s: A Collection of Critical Essays (1989).Cronin, Gloria L. A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in Saul Bellow (2000).Goldman, L. H., Gloria L. Cronin, and Ada Aharoni, eds. Saul Bellow: A Mosaic (1992).Fuchs, Daniel, Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision (1984).Hyland, Peter, Saul Bellow (1992).Malin, Irving, Saul Bellow and the Critics (1967).?????? Newman, Judie, Saul Bellow and History (1984).Pifer, Ellen, Saul Bellow: Against the Grain (1990).Sylvia Plath, The Bell JarText: Any available. Ashe, Marie. ‘The Bell Jar and the Ghost of Ethel Rosenberg’ in Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America, ed. Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz 1995).Axelrod, Stephen Gould. Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words (1992). Baldwin, Kate. ‘The Radical Imaginary of The Bell Jar’, Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Fall 2004).Gill, Jo, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (2006).Nelson, Deborah. Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America (2002). Peel, Robin. Writing Back: Sylvia Plath and Cold War Politics (2002).Rose, Jacqueline. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (1993). Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49Text: any available. Note that out-of-print back issues of the journal Pynchon Notes are available as PDFs online. Abbas, Niran, ed. Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins (2003). Berressem, Hanjo. Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text (1993). Bloom, Harold (ed.). Thomas Pynchon (Modern Critical Views) (1986).Chambers, Judith. Thomas Pynchon (1992).Cooper, Peter. Signs and Symptoms: Thomas Pynchon and the Contemporary World (1981).Copestake, Ian D., ed. American Postmodernity: Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon (2003). Cowart, David. Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion (1980). -- Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History (2011).Dalsgaard, Inger H et al, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon (2012). Dugdale, John. Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables of Power (1990). Grant, J Kerry. A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 (1994).Hite, Molly. Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon (1983). Levine, George and David Leverenz, eds. Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon (1976). Madsen, Deborah. The Postmodernist Allegories of Thomas Pynchon (1991).Maltby, Paul. Dissident Postmodernists: Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon (1991).Mangen, Anne and Rolf Gaasland, eds. Blissful Bewilderment: Studies in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon (2002). Mattessich, Stefan. Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the work of Thomas Pynchon (2002).Mendelson, Edward, ed. Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays (1978). Palmeri, Frank. Satire in Narrative: Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, and Pynchon (1990).Pearce, Richard, ed. Critical Essays on Thomas Pynchon (1981). Plater, William M. The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon (1978).O’Donnell, Patrick, ed. New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 (1991). Tanner, Tony. Thomas Pynchon (1982).Thomas, Samuel. Pynchon and the Political (2007).Witzling, David. Everybody’s America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernity (2008).Don DeLillo, White NoiseText: Any available.Bloom, Harold, ed. Don DeLillo (Modern Critical Views) (2003).Boxall, Peter. Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (2006)Cowart, David. Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language (2003).DePietro, Thomas. Conversations with Don DeLillo (2005).Duval, John Noel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo (2008). Kavadlo, Jesse. Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief (2004).Laist, Randy. Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels (2010).Lentricchia, Frank, ed. New Essays on White Noise (1991).---. ed. Introducing Don DeLillo (1991).Orr, Leonard. Don DeLillo’s ‘White Noise’: A Reader’s Guide (2003).Osteen, Mark. ‘Don DeLillo’ in A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, ed. David Seed. (2010).Ruppersburg, Hugh and Tim Engles, eds. Critical Essays on Don DeLillo (2000).Tanner, Tony. The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo (2000).American FictionLecture Programme, 2012-13Lectures will be held every Thursday at 4pm. Venue will be notified in September 2012. (1) The American 'Multiverse': Approaching US FictionDr TerryI: Searching for the USA: Visions / Voices / Identities(2) Making an American Book: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)Dr Grausam(3) Overview lecture: Cowboys, Gender and the Vanishing Frontier: Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) and Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999) Dr Thomas(4) Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)Prof Regan(5) ‘We, the People’: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and New Deal Documentary filmDr Terry(6) Overview lecture: ‘Out of the Silence’: Native American Literary Identities: James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans (1826) and Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine (1993)Dr ListerII: Telling 'The South’ – Reading through Race and Region(7) Narratives of Slavery: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), and Harriet Jacobs [Linda Brent], Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)Dr Terry(8) Overview lecture: Southern Myths and Fictions: Kate Chopin, ‘Désirée’s Baby’ (1893) and Gone with the Wind (1936); film (1939)]Dr Terry(9) Tales from the Dark House: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)Dr Grausam(10) 'Not a story to pass on': Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)Dr TerryCHRISTMAS VACATIONIII: American Renaissance / American Rebels(11) Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850) Dr Wootton(12) In the Name of the Devil: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) Dr Thomas(13) The Nature of Resistance: Henry David Thoreau, ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849) and Walden (1854)Dr ThomasIV: Style, Self and Society(14) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)Dr JamesREADING WEEK(15) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911)Dr Terry(16) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) [with references to Tender is the Night (1934)] Dr SandyV: Post-war Promise / Post-war Paranoia(17) Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)Prof Regan(18) The Anti-Hero: Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King (1959) and Herzog (1963)Dr SandyEASTER VACATION(19) The Cold War: Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)Dr Grausam(20) Postal Politics: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) [with some brief references to Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)] Dr Thomas(21) Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985)Dr GrausamPost-War Fiction and Poetry:Preliminary Reading List and Module GuideModule convenors: Professor Pat Waugh and Professor Stephen ReganThis module examines a selection of the major fiction and poetry written between 1945 and the present. The module also situates this writing in the context of intellectual and cultural histories of the period and examines a range of poetic and fictional forms. The module is organised broadly chronologically, but highlights key themes of the period as well covering a selection of the major authors. Please note that this is not a set text module; it is a set author module and in your formative essays and in the examination you will be expected to write on authors taught on the module. The reading list below is a preliminary guide to the primary material that will be covered in lectures, and also suggests some useful general books and essay collections that cover the period as a whole. Individual author- and topic reading lists will be provided separately. You are advised to begin reading some of the authors over the vacation, and you may also wish to read some of the background/general books suggested below. Primary TextsSections One and Two Post-War Settlements/ New DirectionsKingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (Penguin, 1992)Robert Conquest (ed.), New Lines (Macmillan, 1956)Donald Davie, Selected Poems? New ed. (Carcanet, 1997)Thom Gunn,?Collected Poems (Faber, 1993)Geoffrey Hill, Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006)Elizabeth Jennings, New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2002) Philip Larkin, Collected Poems (Faber, 2003)Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (Penguin, 1971)George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin, 2008)Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (Penguin, 2000)Al Alvarez (selected and intro), The New Poetry (1962.? Penguin, 1966, rev edn).Martin Amis, Money (Vintage new edition, 2005); London Fields (Vintage new edition, 1999); The Information. (Harper Perennial, 1996)J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Harper Perennial, 2006 ); The Atrocity Exhibition (Flamingo Modern Classics / Harper Perennial, 2006). Geoffrey Hill, Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006).Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems 1957-1994 (Faber, 2001)Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (Harper Perenniall, 2007).Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver’s Seat, The Hothouse by the East River (Penguin, 2000, 1999, 2006, 1975)Charles Tomlinson, Selected Poems, 1955-97 (Oxford Poets, 1997) ----------- Charles Tomlinson (Author)Find all the books, read about the author, and more.See search results for this author Are you an Author? Learn about Author Central Renga: A Chain of Poems (Penguin modern European poets, 1979) Section Three: Nation and Internationalisation: Fiction and GlobalisationMartin Amis, Time’s Arrow (Vintage, 2003)Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up! (Penguin, 2001)Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (Picador, 2005)Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (1996); Saturday (Vintage, 2006)Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (Faber, 2005); Never Let Me Go (Faber, 2005)Section Four: African and Black Diaspora WritingStewart Brown and Mark McWatt, eds The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse (2005)Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Penguin, 2006)Chinua Achebe and C.L.Innes eds African Short Stories: Twenty Short Stories from Across the Continent (Heinemann, 1987)J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Secker and Warburg, 1999); Elizabeth Costello (Secker and Warburg, 2003)Andrea Levy, Small Island (Headline Review, 2004)Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River (Vintage, 2006)Zadie Smith, On Beauty (Penguin, 2006)Derek Walcott, Selected Poems (Faber, 2007)Section Five: Contemporary PoetryJames Fenton, The Memory of War and Children In Exile: Poems ?1968-1983 (Penguin, 1983)Tony Harrison, Selected Poems ( Penguin, 1987)Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (Faber, 1998).Paul Muldoon (ed.), The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Faber, 1986).?Secondary CriticismGeneral Books/Essay Collections on Literature 1945-presentArana, Victoria and Lauri Ramey eds., Black British Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)Brook, Susan, Literature and Culture in the 1950s (Palgrave, 2007)Davies, Alistair and Alan Sinfield, British Culture of the Post-War (Routledge, 2000)Cockin, Katherine and Jago Morrison, The Post-War British Literature Handbook Continuum, 2010)Dabydeen, David and Nana Wilson-Tague, A Reader’s Guide to West Indian and Black British Literature (Hansib, 1988)Gilroy, Paul, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987)Hewison, Robert, In Anger: Culture in the Cold War 1945-60 (London, 1981)----------- Too Much; Art and Society in the Sixties (London, 1986)Gilroy, Paul, After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture (2004)Hall, Stuart, and Martin Jacques, eds The Politics of Thatcherism (1983)Innes, C.L., ed. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (CUP, 2007)King, Bruce, The Internationalisation of English Literature (Oxford, 2004) Marcus, Laura and Peter Nicholls, The Cambridge History of English Literature: the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 2005)Owusu, Kwesi (ed.) Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader (2000)Stevenson, Randall, The Oxford English Literary History, vol. 12: 1960-2000 (Oxford, 2005), Stevenson, Randall and Brian McHale, The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2006)Waugh, Patricia, The Harvest of the Sixties (Oxford, 1995)General Books/Essay Collections on Post-war FictionBaker, Stephen The Fiction of Postmodernity, (Edinburgh, 2000)Byatt, A.S. On Histories and Stories (Vintage, 2001)Bentley, Nick Contemporary British Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2008)Brannigan, John Orwell to the Present (Palgrave, 2003)Connor, Steven The English Novel in History 1950-95 (Routledge, 1996)Donnell, Alison, and Sarah Lawson Welsh, eds The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (1996)Gasiorek, Andre Post-War British Fiction (Edward Arnold, 1995)Head, Dominic The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction (Cambridge, 2002)Irele, Abiola, The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora (2001)English, James ed., A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Blackwell, 2006)Gikandi, Simon, Reading the African Novel (1987)Kannick, Geoffrey Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture (Palgrave, 2010)Lodge, David, The Novelist at the Crossroads and Other Essays (Edward Arnold, 1971)Lazarus, Neil, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (2004)Lee, A. Robert, ed. Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995)Proctor, James Dwelling Places: Post-War Black British Writing (Manchester, 2003)Sage, Lorna, Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists (London, 1992)Shaffer, Brian ed., A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2001 (Blackwell, 2005) Taylor, Brian After the War: The Novel and English Society Since 1945 (Chatto, 1993)Tew, Brian Rod Mengham and Richard Lane, Contemporary British Fiction (Polity, 2003)Waugh, Patricia, Metafiction: The Theory and Practise of Self-Conscious Fiction (Methuen, 1984)---------------------Feminine Fictions (Edward Arnold, 1989) ------------- Practising Postmodernism/Reading Modernism (Arnold, 1992) Wood, Michael Children of Silence: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Pimlico, 1998)General Books/Essay Collections on Post-war PoetryCorcoran, Neil,?English Poetry Since 1940 (Longman, 1993)Neil Corcoran (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (CUP, 2008).Matthew Campbell, The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (CUP, 2003).?. Davie, Donald,?Purity of Diction in English Verse (1952; Routledge, 1967)Davie, Donald,?Articulate Energy: An Inquiry into the Syntax of English Poetry ?? (1955;Routledge, 1976)Davie, Donald, Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (Routledge, 1973)Davie, Donald, The Poet in the Imaginary Museum: Essays of Two? Decades? ed.???? Barry Alpert (Carcanet, 1977)Davie, Donald, Trying to Explain: Essays (Carcanet,1980)Davie, Donald, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960-1988???? (Carcanet,?1989)Gunn, Thom, Shelf Life: Essays, Memories and an Interview (Faber, 1994)Haffenden, John,?Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation (Faber, 1981)Hill, Geoffrey,?Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill (OUP, 2008)Jones, Peter &?? M. Schmidt, eds, British Poetry Since 1970: A Critical Survey??? ??????? (Carcanet,? 1980)Leader, Zachary, ed.???The Movement Reconsidered:? Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, ???????? Davie,??and their Contemporaries (OUP, 2009)Morrison, Blake, The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950’s (OUP,??????? 1980) O’Neill, Michael, The All-Sustaining Air (OUP, 2007).O’Neill, Michael, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (CUP, 2010)?Roberts, Neil, ed. A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry? (Blackwell, 2001)Schmidt, Michael, An Introduction to Fifty Modern British Poets (Pan, 1979)Schmidt, Michael?& G. Lindop, eds, British Poetry Since 1960: A Critical Survey??????? (Carcanet, 1972)Thurley, Geoffrey, The Ironic Harvest: English Poetry in the Twentieth Century???????? (Arnold, 1974)Wilmer, Clive, Poets Talking: The ‘Poet of the Month’ interviews from BBC Radio 3???????? (Carcanet, 1994).Specimen Examination Questions‘We, whoever that dangerous pronoun is taken to refer to, should have available to us more adequate characterisations of the past than the stereotypes peddled by many journalists and most politicians’ (Stefan Collini). How far do post-war fiction and/or poetry contribute to a ‘more adequate’ representation of the past? ‘The identification of cultural difference may result not so much in the effort to understand it, but in the desire to make it even more exotic.’ Discuss some of the ways in which post-war writers have confronted or negotiated this problem. Write on the uses and/or characteristics of ONE of the following modes in post-war fiction: suburban Gothic; melodrama; satire; self-referentiality; narrative prolepsis; surrealism; the grotesque. ‘Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the twentieth century (J.G. Ballard). Using this comment as a starting point, discuss the representation of ‘reality’ in two or more writers of the period. ‘British fictional writing in the decade or so after 1945 tends to resort to nostalgia as a defence against a threatening and anxious sense of dislocation’. Discuss this observation with reference to nostalgia OR dislocation OR both in fiction written between 1945 and 1960.‘Not inhabitants ?of their own lives so much as intrigued observers, not victims but onlookers, not poets working in a? professional white heat but dramatists and story-tellers’ (Morrison and Motion). ?Discuss the work of TWO OR MORE poets in the light of this comment.? ‘The question is the kind of success a style allows’ (Alvarez).? Comment on the kinds of success allowed by style in the work of TWO OR MORE poets.? Discuss the role played by and treatment of ONE OR MORE of the following in the work of TWO OR MORE poets:? metaphor; politics; war; nature. 'We have lived / In important places'. Discuss the significance of place in the work of TWO OR MORE poets.?Discuss the preoccupation with vision and perception in the work of TWO OR MORE poets.?Is religious belief a significant concern for writers in the post-war period? Discuss with reference to the work of TWO OR MORE writers from the module. ‘[T]he West Indian poet[‘s] [...] function remains the old one of being filter and purifier, never losing the tone and strength of the common speech as he uses the hieroglyphs, symbols, or alphabet of the official one ‘(Derek Walcott, “The Muse of History”). ?Consider how any TWO OR MORE writers (poets and/or writers of fiction) engage with (or fail to engage with) ‘common speech’.Post-War LiteratureLectures will be held every Thursday at 10 am. Venue will be notified in September 2012. Section One: Post-War Settlements Week One: After the War: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four?and Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (Dr Mackay)Week Two: Fiction in the Fifties: Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim?and Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (Dr Mackay)Week Three:?The Movement and Beyond (1):? Philip Larkin?? (Professor Regan) Week Four:? The Movement and Beyond (2):? Thom Gunn and Donald Davie (Professor O’Neill) Section Two: New Directions: Week Five: J.G.Ballard (The Drowned World, The Atrocity Exhibition) (Dr Thomas)Week Six: Martin Amis: the Anxiety of the Canon (Money, London Fields, The Information) (Dr Nash)Week Seven: Ted Hughes (Dr Sandy)Week Eight: Seeing is Believing/ A World Elsewhere: Charles Tomlinson?(Professor Clark) Week Nine:? Geoffrey Hill and Elizabeth Jennings?(Professor O’Neill) Week Ten: Muriel Spark: Secularisation and Satire (texts Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Driver’s Seat, The Hothouse by the East River) (Professor Waugh)Section Three: Nation and Internationalisation: Fiction and GlobalisationWeek Eleven: Thatcherism and the Novel (SJ) (Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up; Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty) (Dr James)Week: Twelve: Affective Cosmopolitanism: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Late Modernism (Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day) (Professor Waugh)Week Thirteen: Biopolitics and the Novel from the 1990s (Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Saturday; Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow (Professor Waugh)Section Four: African and Black Diaspora WritingWeek Fourteen: Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook (Professor Waugh)Wee Fifteen: READING WEEKWeek Sixteen Derek Walcott and Caribbean Poetry (Dr Terry)Week Seventeen: Black African Fiction (Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart; short stories by Tsitsi Dangarembga) (Dr Terry) Week Eighteen: J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello (Professor Waugh) Week Nineteen: Black British Fiction ( two of Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River, Andrea Levy, Small Island, Zadie Smith, On Beauty) (Dr Terry)Section Five: Contemporary PoetryWeek Twenty: Seamus Heaney?(Professor Regan)Week Twenty-One: Mahon, Longley, Muldoon (Professor Regan) Week Twenty Two: Tony Harrison and James Fenton (Professor O’Neill) Special Public Event to be Scheduled: The Challenge of the Contemporary: responding to contemporary literature: Discussion Amongst Staff and invited writer with Q and A. LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, LEVEL 2 AND LEVEL 32012-13MODULE CONVENORS: PROFESSOR MICHAEL O’NEILL AND DR SARAH WOOTTONPRELIMINARY READING LISTIn the lectures for this module (see list at end of this reading list) we aim to provide a basis for understanding Romantic literature through a combination of lectures on general topics, individual authors, and specific texts. This preliminary list gives recommended texts, a few introductory critical studies, and a selection of useful electronic resources. A more extensive critical reading list will be available at the start of the module. AnthologiesA good range of the poetry is included in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th edition, vol. 2 (New York and London: Norton, 2012) and in Romanticism: An Anthology, ed. D. Wu, 4th edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2012). Wherever an author is particularly well represented in the Norton or Blackwell anthologies, this is indicated in the list below.See also:M. O’Neill and C. Mahoney (eds), Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).F. Robertson (ed.), Women’s Writing, 1778-1838: An Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).The list follows the order of the lecture series, and organizes reading by author or topic. The ‘recommended preliminary reading’ specifies the texts that you are advised to read in advance of the lecture. MICHAELMAS TERM 2012The best preparation for the general lectures is the introductory section to the Romantic Period in the Norton anthology. Relevant sections and introductions in the Blackwell anthologies listed above are also useful.WILLIAM BLAKEMany of the poems discussed in the lectures are available in the Norton and Blackwell anthologies. The Book of Urizen, discussed in the second Blake lecture, is included in the Blackwell anthology but not in the Norton. The best all-round paperback text to buy is either Blake’s Poetry and Designs, ed. Mary Lynn Johnson and John E. Grant (New York and London: Norton, 1979: 0393090833) or the more fully annotated William Blake: Selected Poems and Prose, ed. D. Fuller (London: Longman, rev edn, 2008: 1408204134). To see the poetry in the context of Blake’s designs, you should use the following paperback editions, which include colour reproductions: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, ed. A. Lincoln (Princeton, 1991: 0691037906); or the less good Songs of Innocence and of Experience, ed. G. Keynes (Oxford paperback, 1970: 0192810898); The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, ed. G. Keynes (Oxford paperback, 1975: 0192811673).Recommended preliminary reading: see lecture list.WILLIAM WORDSWORTHWilliam Wordsworth, ed. S. Gill (Oxford Authors, 2012: 0199699593), offers the best selection of Wordsworth, including Lyrical Ballads and the text of the 1805 Prelude. Those wishing to concentrate on Wordsworth’s long poem may prefer Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850, ed. J. Wordsworth, M.H. Abrams, S. Gill (New York and London: Norton, 1979: 039309071X), which contains the poem in its preliminary 1799 two-book form, and parallel 1805/1850 texts. Both the Norton and Blackwell anthologies contain a good selection of Wordsworth’s work. Recommended preliminary reading: for the first Wordsworth lecture, ‘The Ruined Cottage’, ‘The Idiot Boy’, ‘Simon Lee’, ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘The Two April Mornings’, ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’, ‘She dwelt among th’untrodden ways’, ‘Strange fits of passion I have known’, ‘Michael’, ‘Resolution and Independence’, ‘Ode (“There was a Time”)’ [better known as ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’]; for the second Wordsworth lecture, The Prelude, 1805 version, books 1, 2, 6 and 11; see also Preface to Lyrical Ballads.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoems, ed. J. Beer (Everyman, new edn., 1996: 0460878263). Biographia Literaria, ed. G. Watson (Everyman, 1956, 1991: 0460873326). Both the Norton and the Blackwell anthology include a good selection of Coleridge’s poetry and a good sample of chapters from Biographia Literaria.Recommended preliminary reading: for the first Coleridge lecture, ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement’, ‘Dejection: An Ode’; for the second Coleridge lecture, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Christabel’, and ‘Kubla Khan’. WOMEN’S POETRY: SMITH, HEMANS, LANDONMany of the poems discussed in the lecture are available in F. Robertson (ed.), Women’s Writing, 1778-1838 (Oxford: OUP, 2001: 075678347X). The following editions are also recommended: The Poems of Charlotte Smith, ed. S. Curran (OUP, 1993: 019507873X); Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose and Letters, ed. G. Kelly (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002: 1551111373); Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, ed. Susan Wolfson (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000: 0691050295); Selected Writings of Letitia Landon, ed. J.J. McGann and D. Riess (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1997: 1551111357). Electronic texts of all the poems discussed in the lecture may be found via Literature Online (LION) at preliminary reading: Charlotte Smith’s ‘Beachy Head’, 'The Jay in Masquerade' and 'The Glow-Worm'; Felicia Hemans’s Records of Woman (in particular, 'Indian Woman's Death-Song' and 'Properzia Rossi') and 'The Last Song of Sappho'; Letitia Landon’s 'Felicia Hemans' and 'Lines of Life'.JOHN CLAREJohn Clare: Major Works, ed. E. Robinson and D. Powell (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008: 0199549796), which contains a good selection of prose as well as poems; John Clare: Selected Poems, ed. G. Summerfield (Penguin, 2000: 9780140437249). Recommended preliminary reading: ‘The Lament of Swordy Well’, among other poems to be advised ahead of the lecture. EPIPHANY TERM 2013THE GOTHIC NOVELAnn Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, ed. J. Howard (Penguin Classics, 2001: 0140437592). William Godwin, Caleb Williams, ed. Pamela Clemit (Oxford: OUP, 2009: 0199232067). James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, ed. Ian Duncan (Oxford World’s Classics, 2010: 9780199217953).Recommended preliminary reading: all three novels. JANE AUSTENSense and Sensibility, ed. Ros Ballaster (Penguin Classics, 2003: 9780141439662). Persuasion, ed. and introd. Linda Bree (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 1998: 1551111314)Recommended preliminary reading: both novels.LORD BYRONByron: The Major Works, ed. J.J. McGann (Oxford: World’s Classics, 2000: 0-19-2840401): the most useful selection, including a complete text of Don Juan. The Norton anthology includes a good selection of shorter poems and extracts from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan; the Blackwell anthology includes extracts from these two works and a reasonable selection of shorter poems. Recommended preliminary reading: for the first lecture, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, cantos 3 and 4, and Manfred; for the second lecture, Don Juan, cantos 1-4 (and as much beyond as you can manage).PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPercy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, ed. Z. Leader and M. O’Neill (Oxford: World’s Classics, reissue 2009; 0199538972), or Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, ed. D. H. Reiman and N. Fraistat (New York and London: Norton, 2002: 0393977528). Both editions contain a full text of A Defence of Poetry. Both the Norton and Blackwell anthologies include good selections of Shelley’s poetry but only extracts from A Defence of Poetry.Recommended preliminary reading: for the first lecture: Alastor, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, Mont Blanc, Julian and Maddalo, and Epipsychidion; for the second lecture: ‘Ode to the West Wind’, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, The Triumph of Life, ‘The Two Spirits – An Allegory’, some of the late poems to Jane Williams.JOHN KEATSThe Complete Poems, ed. J. Barnard (Penguin, 1973: 0-14-042210-2). Both the Norton and Blackwell anthologies include good selections from the poetry and extracts from the letters.Recommended preliminary reading: for the first lecture, ‘Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil’, ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’, ‘Lamia’, and ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’; for the second lecture, the Odes, ‘Hyperion’ and ‘The Fall of Hyperion’. EASTER TERM 2013WILLIAM HAZLITTThe Fight and Other Writings, ed. Tom Paulin and David Chandler?(London: Penguin, 2000: 0140436138) has a very good selection of Hazlitt's essays, whilst The Spirit of the Age?is the most important collection of his criticism?(Dodo Press, 2007: 1406544183). The Spirit of the Age is also available from the library in a number of different editions, and via Literature Online (LION) and Project Guttenberg:. ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’ can be found in the Norton.?Recommended preliminary reading: ‘On Gusto’, ‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, 'Mr Wordsworth', 'Mr Coleridge'?(the latter two are both from The Spirit of the Age and also in the Penguin selection), 'The Fight' and 'The Indian Jugglers' (in the Penguin). CRITICAL READINGThis is a list of surveys, guides, and reference works which will help to orientate you during your reading for the module. Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760-1830 (Oxford, 1981).Marilyn Gaull, English Romanticism: The Human Context (Norton, 1988).Aidan Day, Romanticism, New Critical Idiom Series (Routledge, 1996).Gary Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830, Longman Literature in English Series (1989).J.R. Watson, English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1820, Longman Literature in English Series (2nd edn., 1992).Stuart Curran (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism (Cambridge, 1993).David Pirie (ed.), The Romantic Period, vol. 5 of The Penguin History of Literature (Penguin, 1994).Michael Ferber, Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2010).Charles Mahoney (ed.), A Companion to Romantic Poetry (Blackwell, 2011).Michael O’Neill (ed.), Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide (Oxford, 1998).Special Issue of the journal Romanticism, devoted to ‘Romanticism and its Legacies’, guest ed. M O’Neill, 14:1 (2008).INTERNET SITESThere are three especially useful web sites for Literature of the Romantic Period, each of which act as gateways to many others:Romantic Chronology, gen. ed, Laura Mandell and Alan Liu (searchable chronology of political events, religious debates, and intellectual controversies of the period, setting key works in context, with links to other valuable resource sites on specific authors and topics), at: Circles, ed. Neil Fraistat and Steven E. Jones (includes electronic editions of primary texts, especially of Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley, lists of recent publications, and links to other valuable resources sites on specific authors and topics (Austen, Blake, Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft, amongst others), at: and Victorianism on the Net, ed. Michael Laplace-Sinatra and Dino Franco Felluga (on-line journal which includes critical essays and reviews on all aspects of Romanticism, together with links to other valuable resource sites), at: LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIODLECTURE LIST 2012-2013 Lectures will be held every Friday at 9 am. Venue will be notified in September 2012. Michaelmas Term 2012OctoberThemes, Images, and Definitions Dr WoottonOctoberBlake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience Professor HartOctoberBlake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Book of Urizen and ‘The Mental Traveller’Professor O’Neill OctoberThe Revolutionary ContextDr GrimbleNovemberWordsworth: Lyrical and Narrative PoemsProfessor O’NeillNovember Wordsworth: The 1805 Prelude Professor ClarkNovemberColeridge: Conversation PoemsProfessor ClarkNovemberColeridge: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Christabel’, and ‘Kubla Khan’Dr SandyDecember Beyond the “Big Six” I: Women’s Poetry: Smith, Hemans, and Landon Dr WoottonDecember Beyond the “Big Six” II: John Clare and EcocriticismProfessor Clark Epiphany Term 2013JanuaryThe Gothic Novel: The Mysteries of Udolpho,Caleb Williams, and Confessions of a Justified SinnerDr JamesJanuaryJane Austen: Sense and Sensibility and PersuasionDr James FebruaryRomantic Dialogues: Austen, Byron, and the Gothic VillainDr Wootton FebruaryByron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, III-IV, and ManfredDr SandyFebruaryREADING WEEKFebruary Byron: Don Juan, 1-IVProfessor O’Neill March Shelley: Alastor, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, and ‘Mont Blanc’ Dr SandyMarchShelley: ‘Ode to the West Wind’, Prometheus Unbound, and AdonaisProfessor O’Neill MarchKeats: The Narrative PoemsDr Wootton Easter Term 2013April Keats: The OdesDr SandyMayHazlitt: The Figure of the Critic in the Romantic Period Dr GrimbleMay Retrospect: Romantic IdeologiesProfessor Clark Chaucer:General Reading ListModule Convenor: Professor Corinne SaundersLectures for this module will begin with The Canterbury Tales and then move on to the Dream Vision poems (Book of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, House of Fame, Legend of Good Women), concluding with Troilus and Criseyde. The library has very good holdings for Chaucer, including a large amount of audio material. Numbers of students registered for this course will be large, however, which means that there will be inevitable pressure on books. Copies of the main critical works on this list will be placed on short loan. If you are browsing along the shelves, do take note of the publication date of the work you are reading - views on Chaucer have changed markedly in recent years. Try checking your college library before leaving for the summer, to see whether books can be ordered over the summer in time for the autumn. Particularly useful would be the Oxford Guides series (see under Reference Works and Companions, below).You should equip yourself with the Riverside Chaucer, which provides a good, cheap edition of all the texts, excellent notes and a reasonably up-to date bibliography. The other editions listed offer fuller introductions to the specific texts. The two Durham Medieval Texts editions are reasonably priced, and Helen Phillips’ edition of the Book of the Duchess offers a large selection of the French source texts. Individual editions of the Canterbury Tales have not been listed. There are some relatively inexpensive critical works in paperback, such as the Oxford Guides series, which provides an excellent way into the subject, and contains extremely useful background, textual, source and critical material. The various other Companion works are also useful.The following is a basic reading list for the course. Of course, you are not expected to read everything on it, nor even a major part of it. It is most important that your reading during the summer vacation focus on the texts themselves; the Riverside edition contains ‘foot of the page’ quick glosses, a full glossary and notes. Vacation reading is essential as Middle English is difficult at first, and does require time; it will become easier and speedier to read. Listening to recordings is an excellent way into the texts. Chaucer himself was writing within a sophisticated intellectual tradition, and working constantly with literary sources, so that it will also be very helpful to read in translation some of the most formative influences on his work (e.g. Boethius, Boccaccio, Dante, Ovid, The Romance of the Rose,). Translations of Chaucer's works have not been included in this reading list as it is expected that students will read the texts in the original language. Particularly useful works are marked with *. The Library is asked to place these on three-day loan.Editions:*The Riverside Chaucer (3rd. ed.), ed. Larry D. Benson, OUP 1988. With a new introduction by Christopher Cannon, 2008.(Recommended edition: the previous edition (The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (2nd. ed.), ed. F.N. Robinson, OUP 1957) will provide an adequate text but its notes and bibliography are out of date).Chaucer’s Dream Poetry, ed. Helen Phillips and Nick Havely, Longman, 1997.The Book of the Duchess, ed. Helen Phillips, Durham Medieval Texts, 1982, 2nd.ed. 1994.The House of Fame, ed. N.R. Havely, Durham Medieval Texts, 1994.The Parlement of Foules, ed. D.S. Brewer, Manchester University Press, 1960 (useful but now out of date).Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde, ed. B .A. Windeatt, Longman, 1984 (paperback 1990) (excellent edition with an aligned texts of the sources).Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Barry Windeatt, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003. (excellent, convenient edition, fully glossed and annotated).Sources:(N.B. The editions listed above also have information on source material; most of the works below contain source texts)Boccaccio, Il Filostrato, ed. N.E. Griffin and A.B. Myrick, Philadelphia, 1929.*Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. V.E. Watts, 2nd edn, Penguin, 1999.Bryan, W.F. and Dempster, G., Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, New York, 1941, repr. 1958.Correale, Robert M. and Mary Hamel, Sources and Analogues of The Canterbury Tales, Volumes I and II, Chaucer Studies 28 and 35, Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002 and 2005. *Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose, trans. Frances Horgan, Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1999 trans. in prose, Charles Dahlberg, University Press of New England, 1986. *Gordon, R.K., The Story of Troilus, London, 1934.*Havely, N.R., Chaucer's Boccaccio, Chaucer Studies 5, D.S. Brewer, 1980.Macrobius, Commentary on the ‘Somnium Scipionis’, trans. W.H.Stahl, Cornell UP, 1952. Miller, R.P., Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds, OUP 1977. Nolan, B., Chaucer and theTradition of the ‘Roman Antique’, CUP, 1992.*Windeatt, B.A., Chaucer's Dream Poetry: Sources and Analogues, Chaucer Studies 7, D. S. Brewer, 1982. Reference Works and Companions:Andrew, Malcolm, The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer, Palgrave Literary Dictionaries, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.*Brown, Peter, ed., A Companion to Chaucer, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.Burnley, David, A Guide to Chaucer’s Language, Macmillan Press, 1983.*Cooper, H., The Canterbury Tales, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1989.Davis, N., D. Gray, P. Ingham, A. Wallace Hadrill, A Chaucer Glossary, Oxford 1979. *Ellis, Steve, ed., Chaucer: An Oxford Guide, Oxford: OUP, 2005.* Gray, Douglas, ed., The Oxford Companion to Chaucer, Oxford: OUP, 2003.Leyerle, J. and Anne Quirk, Chaucer: A Bibliographical Introduction, University of Toronto Press, 1986. *Minnis, A.J., J. Scattergood & J.J. Smith, The Shorter Poems, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1996. The Oxford Classical Dictionary (for information on classical references, myths etc.) *Saunders, Corinne, ed., Chaucer. Blackwell Guides to Criticism, 2001. (A survey of and extracts from Chaucer criticism).*Saunders, Corinne, ed., A Concise Companion to Chaucer, Blackwell, 2006.Saunders, Corinne, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry, Blackwell, 2010.*Windeatt, B. Troilus and Criseyde, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1992.Background:Bennett, H.S., Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century, OUP, 1947.Boitani, P. (ed.), Chaucer and the Italian Trecento, CUP, 1983. Burnley, J.D., Chaucer's Language and the Philosophers' Tradition, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1979. Burrow, J.A., Ricardian Poetry, Routledge & Kegan Paul ,1971.Simon Horobin, The Language of the Chaucer Tradition, Chaucer Studies 32, Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003.Lewis, C.S., The Discarded Image, Cambridge, 1964. Mathew, G., The Court of Richard II, John Murray, 1968. McKisack, M., The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399, Oxford History of England, OUP, 1959 (standard historical reference). Murphy, James J., Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from St Augustine to the Renaissance, University of California Press 1974.Murphy, James J. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts, University of California Press, 1971.Muscatine, C., Chaucer and the French Tradition, Berkeley 1957, University of California Paperback, 1964. Pearsall, D., The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography, Blackwell, 1992.Prendergast, Thomas A., Chaucer’s Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus, London; New York: Routledge, 2004.Robertson, D.W., A Preface to Chaucer, Princeton UP, 1962 (Interesting, but use with care). Scattergood, V.J. & J.W. Sherborne, English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages, Duckworth, 1983.Strohm, Paul, Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts, Princeton UP, 1992.Wimsatt, James I., Chaucer and the Poems of ‘Ch’, Chaucer Studies IX, D.S. Brewer, 1982.Wimsatt, James I., Chaucer and His French Contemporaries. Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century, University of Toronto Press 1991, Paperback 1993.General:Aers, David, Chaucer, Harvester, 1986.Blamires, Alcuin, Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender, Oxford: OUP, 2006.Burlin, Robert B., Chaucerian Fiction, Princeton UP, 1977.Brewer, Derek, A New Introduction to Chaucer, 2nd edn, Longman, 1998.Burger, Glenn, Chaucer’s Queer Nation, University of Minnesota Press, 2003.Butterfield, Ardis, The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War, OUP, 2009.Davenport, W.A., Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1988.Dinshaw, Carolyn, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.Donaldson, E.T., Speaking of Chaucer, London, 1970.Ferster, Judith, Chaucer on Interpretation, Cambridge UP, 1985.Fradenburg, Louise, Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.Ganim, John M., Chaucerian Theatricality, Princeton University Press, 1990.Hansen, Elaine Tuttle, Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender, University of California Press, 1992.Hermann, J.P., & J.J.Burke Jr., Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry, University of Alabama Press,1981.Horobin, Simon, The Language of the Chaucer Tradition, Chaucer Studies 32, Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003.Lawton, David, Chaucer's Narrators, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1985.Mann, Jill, Geoffrey Chaucer, Harvester/Wheatsheaf Feminist Readings Series, 1991.Martin, Priscilla, Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons, Macmillan, 1990.Mehl, D., Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to his Narrative Poetry, CUP, 1986.Mitchell, J. Allan, Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower, Chaucer Studies 33, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.Norton Smith, J., Geoffrey Chaucer, Medieval Writers and their Work, Routledge, 1974.Patterson, Lee, Chaucer and the Subject of History, London Routledge, 1991.Rigby, S. H., Chaucer in Context: Society, Allegory and Gender, Manchester UP, 1996.Sklute, Larry, Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer’s Poetry, Ohio State UP, 1984.Strohm, Paul, Social Chaucer, Harvard UP, 1989.Trigg, Stephanie, Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.Van Dyke, Carolynn, Chaucer’s Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative, Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses; Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson U P, 2005.Weisl, Angela Jane, Conquering the Reign of Femeny: Gender and Genre in Chaucer’s Romance, D. S. Brewer, 1995.Collections of Essays:Allen,Valerie and Ares Axiotis, ed., Chaucer, New Casebooks Series, Macmillan, 1997.Benson, C. David, Critical Essays on Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Major Early Poems, Open University Press, 1991.Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds, New Readings of Chaucer’s Poetry, Chaucer Studies 31, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003. Boitani, P. and J. Mann, eds, The Cambridge Chaucer Companion, CUP, 1986. Butterfield, Ardis, ed., Chaucer and the City, Chaucer Studies 37, Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006.Rowland, B., ed., Companion to Chaucer Studies, rev. ed. New York & Oxford, 1979. Saunders, Corinne, ed., A Concise Companion to Chaucer, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.Schoek, R.J. and J. Taylor, eds, Chaucer Criticism, 2 vols., Notre Dame Paperback, 1961.Dream Poems:(The Philips and Havely editions supply material and bibliography for this section)Bennett, J.A.W., The Parlement of Foules: An Interpretation, OUP 1957.Bennett, J.A.W., Chaucer 's Book of Fame, OUP 1968.Boitani, P., Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame, Chaucer Studies X D.S.Brewer, 1984.Cherniss, M.D., Boethian Apocalypse: Studies in Middle English Vision Poetry, Pilgrim Books, 1987.Minnis, A.J., J. Scattergood and J.J. Smith, The Shorter Poems, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1996.Schibanoff, Susan, Chaucer’s Queer Poetics: Rereading the Dream Trio, Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2006.Spearing, A. C., Medieval Dream Poetry, Cambridge, 1976.The Legend of Good Women:Collette, Carolyn P, ed., The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception, Chaucer Studies 36, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006. Delaney, Sheila, The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, University of California Press, 1994.Frank, R.W. Jr., Chaucer and 'The Legend of Good Women', Harvard U.P., 1972.Kiser, Lisa J., Telling Classical Tales: Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.Rowe, Donald W., Through Nature to Eternity: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.Troilus and Criseyde:Barney, S. A. (ed)., Chaucer's Troilus: Essays in Criticism, London, 1980.Bishop, I., Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde': A Critical Study, Bristol, 1981.Condren, Edward I, Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde, University of Florida Press, 2008.Mann, Jill, Geoffrey Chaucer, Harvester/Wheatsheaf Feminist Readings Series 1991.McAlpine, M., The Genre of 'Troilus and Criseyde’, Cornell University Press, 1978.Patterson, Lee, Chaucer and the Subject of History, London, Routledge, 1991.Pugh, Tyson and Marcia Smith Marzek, ed., Men and Masculinities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, D. S. Brewer, 2008.Salu, M..(ed)., Essays on Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer Studies 2, D.S.Brewer, 1979.Vitto, Cindy L. and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds, New Perspectives on Criseyde, Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2004.Windeatt, B. Troilus and Criseyde, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1992.The Canterbury Tales:Andrew, Malcolm, ed., Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Open U.P., 1991.Benson, C. David, Chaucer’s Drama of Style: Poetic Variety and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales, University of North Carolina Press, 1986.Bishop, Ian, The Narrative Art of the Canterbury Tales, Everyman's University Library, 1987.Blamires, Alcuin, An Introduction to the Variety of Criticism . The Canterbury Tales, The Critics’ Debate, Macmillan, 1987 (useful sectioned bibliography up to 1987).Brown, P. & A. Butcher, The Age of Saturn. Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales, OUP, 1991.Brown, Peter, Chaucer at Work: The Making of the Canterbury Tales, Longman, 1994.Cooper, H., The Structure of the Canterbury Tales, Duckworth, 1983.Cooper, H., The Canterbury Tales, Oxford Guides to Chaucer, Clarendon Press, 1989.Crane, Susan, Gender and Romance in the Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, Princeton UP, 1994.Hirsh, John, Chaucer and the ‘Canterbury Tales’: A Short Introduction, Blackwell, 2003.Howard, D.R., The Idea of the Canterbury Tales, Berkeley, 1976.Kean, P.M., Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry: vol.2 The Art of Narrative, 1972, shortened into 1 vol. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.Knapp, Peggy, Chaucer and the Social Contest, Routledge, 1990.Kolve, V.A., Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative. The First Five Canterbury Tales, Arnold, 1984.Laskaya, Anna, Chaucer’s Approach to Gender in the ‘Canterbury Tales’, D. S. Brewer, 1995.Leicester, H. Marshall Jr., The Disenchanted Self: Representing the Subject in the Canterbury Tales, University of California Press 1990.Lumiansky, R.M., ‘Of Sondry Folk’: The Dramatic Principle in the Art of the Canterbury Tales, University of Texas, 1955.Mann, Jill, Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire, CUP, 1973.Minnis, Alistair, Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.Pearsall, D., The Canterbury Tales, London, 1985.Phillips, Helen, An Introduction to the ‘Canterbury Tales’: Reading, Fiction, Context, Macmillan, 2000.Ruggiers, P.G., The Art of the Canterbury Tales, Madison, 1965.Shoaf, R. A., Chaucer’s Body: The Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales, University Press of Florida, 2001.Wetherbee, Winthrop, Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, Landmarks of World Literature, CUP, 1989.Websites and CD-ROMs:Chaucer: Life and Times CD-ROM (1995). Reading: Primary Source Media.Chaucer: ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ on CD-ROM. Ed. Peter Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press on CD-ROM, Chaucer: ‘The General Prologue’ on CD-ROM (2000). Ed. Elizabeth Solopova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press on CD-ROM. The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile CD-ROM (2000). Ed. Estelle Stubbs. Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions. (The Essential Chaucer (Annotated Bibliography of Chaucer Studies 1900-1984))medlit/chaucer.htm (beginner’s guide to Chaucer) (beginner’s guide to Chaucer) mideng.browse.html (complete original text of Canterbury Tales) (text of Canterbury Tales put into modern spelling and glossed by Michael Murphy) (ELF Edition of Canterbury Tales: original text and modern rhymed translation) (Canterbury Tales Project: transcriptions of all manuscripts and early printed versions into computer-readable form) (guide to Chaucer’s pronunciation with audio illustrations)vmi.edu/english/audio/audio_index.html (guide to Chaucer’s pronunciation with audio extracts) (The Electronic Canterbury Tales with extensive links to other sites)Audio and Video Recordings:*Audio and video recordings may be borrowed from the Main Library Information Desk. Chaucer, Geoffrey. ‘The Canterbury Tales’: ‘The Prologue’. The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats. The British Council and Oxford University Press. Argo Record Company RG 401.Chaucer, Geoffrey. ‘The Canterbury Tales’: ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’. The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats. The British Council and Oxford University Press. Argo Record Company RG 466.Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde (extracts). The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats. The British Council and Oxford University Press. Argo Record Company ZPL 1003-4.Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Read by Trevor Eaton. Wadhurst: Pavilion Records, 1986-93.The Miller’s Tale (1986) THE 595.The General Prologue, The Reeve’s Tale (1988) THE 606.The General Prologue, The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (1988) THE 607.The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale (1989) THE 612.The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale (1989) THE 616.The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale (1990) THE 618.The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The Shipman’s Tale, The Prioress’s Prologue and Tale (1990) THE 619.The Friar’s Prologue and Tale, The Summoner’s Prologue and Tale, The Tale of Sir Thopas (1991) THE 620.The Clerk’s Tale, The Physician’s Tale (1991) THE 621.The Knight’s Tale (1992) THES 625 (2 cassettes).The Man of Law’s Tale, The Cook’s Tale, The Manciple’s Tale (1992) THE 626.The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale, The Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale (1992) THE 629.The Squire’s Tale, The Monk’s Tale (1993) THE 630.The Tale of Melibee (1993) THE 632.The Parson’s Tale (1993) THE 633.The Chaucer Studio, an organisation assisted by the English departments of the University of Adelaide and Brigham Young University, in conjunction with the New Chaucer Society, has recorded an almost complete Canterbury Tales. For full details, see , Geoffrey. The Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales. 3 videos. Wetherby: BBC Educational Publishing. 474157; 474165; 542047.Chaucer Lecture ProgrammeMichaelmas TermChaucer’s Life and Times – Professor SaundersReading Chaucer Aloud – Professor FullerChaucer and the Classical Poets – Dr Cartlidge The Idea of the Canterbury Tales – Professor SaundersThe Romance Genre and the Canterbury Tales – Professor ArchibaldChaucer’s Fabliaux – Dr CartlidgeGender in the Canterbury Tales – Professor SaundersFable and Parody in the Canterbury Tales – Dr Ashurst Saints and Devils in the Canterbury Tales – Professor FullerThe Exotic in the Canterbury Tales – Dr Cartlidge Epiphany Term Dream Visions and Dream Theory – Professor SaundersThe Book of the Duchess – Professor SaundersThe House of Fame – Professor McKinnellThe Parliament of Fowls – Dr Ashurst The Legend of Good Women: Prologue – Professor ArchibaldThe Legend of Good Women: Legends – Professor SaundersTroilus and Criseyde: Introduction – Professor FullerTroilus and Criseyde: Troilus – Professor ArchibaldEaster TermTroilus and Criseyde: Criseyde – Professor SaundersTroilus and Criseyde: Pandarus – Dr Cartlidge Chaucer as a Lyricist: Dr Cartlidge ................
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